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A community for grieving: affordances of social media for support of bereaved parents

Ylva Hård Af SegerstadDepartment of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Dick KasperowskiDepartment of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, SwedenView further author information
Pages 25-41 | Received 19 Sep 2014, Accepted 09 Oct 2014, Published online: 27 Nov 2014

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