{"id":10967,"date":"2018-11-05T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=10967"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:42","slug":"sharing-sad-news-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/05\/sharing-sad-news-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing sad news on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10969\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10969\" class=\"wp-image-10969 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/person-409127_640.jpg\" alt=\"Sad woman on swing, back turned to viewer.\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/person-409127_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/person-409127_640-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/person-409127_640-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/person-woman-girl-alone-409127\/\">(Antranias, Pixabay CC0, Creative Commons)<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s always wonderful to share happy news \u2013 in person and on social media. But when the news is sad, distressing or traumatic, people are far less likely to share it \u2013 even though they may need lots more support than when good things are happening in their lives.\u00a0<strong>Nazanin Andalibi<\/strong>, a postdoctoral research fellow at U-M&#8217;s School of Information studies how and why people use social media and technologies to\u00a0express themselves and interact with others, especially when they experience stigma or adversities.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Andalibi set out to investigate how and why people share about one specific kind of adversity on social media \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/when-whats-on-your-mind-is-tragic-not-happy-sharing-sad-news-on-social-media-105634\">experiencing a pregnancy loss<\/a>. &#8220;Women who experience pregnancy loss can feel isolated and socially stigmatized, and suffer from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;They often have a hard time telling others \u2013 even friends and loved ones \u2013 though that\u2019s a key way they\u2019ll get much-needed social support. Many people don\u2019t tell anyone at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always wonderful to share happy news \u2013 in person and on social media. But when the news is sad, distressing or traumatic, people are far less likely to share it \u2013 even though they may need lots more support than when good things are happening in their lives.\u00a0Nazanin Andalibi, a postdoctoral research fellow at U-M&#8217;s School of\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/05\/sharing-sad-news-on-social-media\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[52,121,65],"class_list":["post-10967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-behavior","tag-privacy","tag-social"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/person-409127_640.jpg",640,426,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/person-409127_640-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/person-409127_640-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/person-409127_640.jpg",640,426,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/person-409127_640.jpg",600,399,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/person-409127_640.jpg",640,426,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/person-409127_640.jpg",640,426,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/person-409127_640-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/person-409127_640-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/person-409127_640-640x300.jpg",640,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/person-409127_640.jpg",640,426,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/person-409127_640.jpg",376,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"It\u2019s always wonderful to share happy news \u2013 in person and on social media. But when the news is sad, distressing or traumatic, people are far less likely to share it \u2013 even though they may need lots more support than when good things are happening in their lives.\u00a0Nazanin Andalibi, a postdoctoral research fellow at&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10967"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10972,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967\/revisions\/10972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}