Topic: fictional characters' deaths

The digital era is witnessing a shift of the expression of human behavior from physical to online spaces. From the possibility to hold both synchronous and asynchronous interactions, to the capacity to store these interactions over time, temporality is a key aspect of online communities' emergence and structuring. Therefore, understanding the temporal patterns of online interactions is critical to apprehend how social interactions take place in digitalized spaces. We approached this question by exploring the temporal patterns of reactions to fictional characters' deaths in an online community