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TY - JOUR
T1 - #MournHub and @GrieveWatch
T2 - mediating monarchy and mourning in the digital age
AU - Clancy, Laura
PY - 2024/5/1
Y1 - 2024/5/1
N2 - Queen Elizabeth II's death in September 2022 prompted a predictable saturation of representations across all UK media. A lot of ‘traditional’ media, like the BBC, largely assumed, and hence attempted to reproduce, a hegemonic and unified response of national mourning. But some social media representations exposed a struggle over meaning, displaying ambivalence or even outright negativity towards the British monarchy and ‘national’ mourning practices. This article uses #MournHub and @GrieveWatch as two critical case studies to explore the complex meanings of the Queen's death across different communities and spaces. Doing so, this article illuminates the ambivalences of ‘national’ mourning, the intersectionality of class, race and national identity in shaping the tenor of people's responses to the Queen's death, the commercialisation and corporatisation of memorialising death and nationhood, the changing forms of royal mediations, and the careful staging of royal events.
AB - Queen Elizabeth II's death in September 2022 prompted a predictable saturation of representations across all UK media. A lot of ‘traditional’ media, like the BBC, largely assumed, and hence attempted to reproduce, a hegemonic and unified response of national mourning. But some social media representations exposed a struggle over meaning, displaying ambivalence or even outright negativity towards the British monarchy and ‘national’ mourning practices. This article uses #MournHub and @GrieveWatch as two critical case studies to explore the complex meanings of the Queen's death across different communities and spaces. Doing so, this article illuminates the ambivalences of ‘national’ mourning, the intersectionality of class, race and national identity in shaping the tenor of people's responses to the Queen's death, the commercialisation and corporatisation of memorialising death and nationhood, the changing forms of royal mediations, and the careful staging of royal events.
KW - BBC
KW - British monarchy
KW - Queen Elizabeth II
KW - death
KW - ideology
KW - mourning
KW - national identity
KW - protest
KW - representation
KW - social media
U2 - 10.1177/13678779231213990
DO - 10.1177/13678779231213990
M3 - Journal article
VL - 27
SP - 428
EP - 443
JO - International Journal of Cultural Studies
JF - International Journal of Cultural Studies
SN - 1367-8779
IS - 3
ER -