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Humour in grief: remixability, affect, and platformed emotion on TikTok
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology. (DIGSUM)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3665-2476
2027 (English)In: The digital life of grief: online mourning in the age of hashtags, algorithms, and social media / [ed] Larissa Hjorth; Katrin Gerber; Crystal Abidin, London: Routledge, 2027, 1, p. 29-44Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter explores how humour mediates grief on TikTok, emphasising the platform’s role in shaping both emotional expression and content circulation. Moving beyond individual meaning-making, it examines how TikTok’s sociotechnical architectures—remixable audio templates, interactive features, and algorithmic recommendation systems—structure humorous engagements with death. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s concept of affective economies, the chapter shows how emotions circulate, stick, and are modulated across users, content, and algorithms, producing both inclusion and exclusion in digital mourning spaces. It also highlights the platform-specificity of humour: content that resonates on TikTok may be misread or rejected elsewhere, revealing the contextual boundaries of digital emotional practices. By foregrounding remixability, interactivity, and algorithmicity, this chapter conceptualises death humour as a socio-platformed phenomenon, demonstrating how grief, humour, and technology co-construct one another in contemporary digital culture.

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London: Routledge, 2027, 1. p. 29-44
Keywords [en]
humour, grief, TikTok, memes, death, social media
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Sociology
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digital humanities
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-257618DOI: 10.4324/9781003712169-4Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105049398400ISBN: 9781003712169 (electronic)ISBN: 9781041195368 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-257618DiVA, id: diva2:2092576
Available from: 2026-08-17 Created: 2026-08-17 Last updated: 2026-10-08Bibliographically approved

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