Memorializing Tragedy on Twitter: Analyzing #PRAYFORORLANDO Following the 2016 Pulse Night Club Shooting. Issue 2 (4th March 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hardy, Molly M.; Miller, Brandon M.
• Is Part Of: Communication studies. Volume 73:Issue 2(2022)
• Page Start: 136
• Page End: 150
• Publication Date: 2022-03-04
• Subjects: Orlando shooting -- Pulse Night Club Shooting -- Twitter reaction -- thematic analysis -- crisis narratives; Communication -- Periodicals; Oratory -- Periodicals; 302.205
• DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2021.2024240
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1051-0974

Abstract

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.