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ABSTRACT
The Pulse Nightclub Shooting in Orlando Florida became the deadliest mass shooting by a single shooter in the United States at the time and a profound attack on the marginalized community of LGBTQ. After a crisis social media can serve as a space for sharing emotions and making sense of tragedy. We conducted a thematic analysis to examine Twitter reaction to the Pulse Night Club shooting. In illuminating two themes of Unification and Division, we make connections between post-crisis social media narrative messaging and crisis narratives, as well as propose the addition of fractured narratives to the typology within contemporary digital culture.
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Molly M. Hardy
Molly M. Hardy (PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2017), is an Associate Instructor of Communication at Maryville University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Brandon M. Miller
Brandon M. Miller (PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2016) is an Associate Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.