The present study aims to examine the existing body of research on technology-mediated bereavement support through a bibliometric analysis, employing the Dual Process Model as an analytical framework. A bibliometric analysis extracted articles published between 2022 and 2025 from the Web of Science database. Software used to process. The results were Bibliometrix and VOSviewer. Applying a minimum occurrence threshold of two, 13 keywords met the inclusion criteria and were grouped into five clusters. The identified clusters encompassed digital memorialization and online remembrance practices, social media–mediated grieving experiences, psychosocial support and coping processes, technology-assisted interventions, and emerging artificial intelligence–related bereavement contexts. The identified thematic clusters show that digital grief research is structured around distinct yet interconnected functional domains. By situating digital bereavement practices within the Dual Process Model, this study provides a theoretically grounded framework to guide future empirical and clinical research on digital grief.
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