Digital Legacy and Interaction

Part of the Human–Computer Interaction Series Book Series

Editors: Maciel, Cristiano; Pereira, Vinícius Carvalho

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-01631-3

ISBN: 978-3-319-01630-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 26, 2013

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The Fate of Digital Legacy in Software Engineers’ View: Technical and Cultural Aspects

Maciel, Cristiano; Pereira, Vinicius Carvalho

Pages: 1 –30

[Interacting on the Social Web, people, feelings and properties are connected, and generate digital legacy beyond life. Digital life goes further than the bodily one, and software limits make it difficult to model these aspects, especially concerning taboos and beliefs connected to death, which...
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Living with the Dead: Emergent Post-mortem Digital Curation and Creation Practices

Gray, Selina Ellis; Coulton, Paul

Pages: 31 –47

[This chapter explores the emergent digital dimension of contemporary Western mourning, by utilising a historical framework and a postmodern, post-disciplinary and practice theory lens, in order to critically discuss how the ruptures of loss and the presence of the dead are radically manifesting...
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The Persistence of Memory Online: Digital Memorials, Fantasy, and Grief as Entertainment

Riechers, Angela

Pages: 49 –61

[This chapter will discuss the ways in which various new technologies have been incorporated into the pedestrian mourning practices of survivors over time, focusing on how today’s technologically-evolved memorials—digital content posted, shared and viewed through social media and online memorial...
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The Internet Generation and the Posthumous Interaction

Pereira, Vinicius Carvalho; Maciel, Cristiano

Pages: 63 –81

[The internet generation massively uses social networks and interacts in these communities with data from dead people. However, how do the death representations of this generation influence its conceptions and practices on posthumous interaction? By means of a quanti-qualitative research, with...
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Narrating the Digital: The Evolving Memento Mori

Pitsillides, Stacey; Jefferies, Janis

Pages: 83 –99

[This chapter builds on concepts of embodiment and considers our relationship to our bodies and environment(s) through the construct of ‘posthumanism.’ By commenting on the relationship between death and the body we consider how our digital remains, both literal and affectual, may take the role...
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Tombstone Technology: Deathscapes in Asia, the U.K. and the U.S.

Cann, Candi K.

Pages: 101 –113

[This chapter examines QR codes and the impact of smartphone technology on tombstones and column bariums. It briefly surveys Human-Computer Interaction related to smartchip technology in the funeral industry in Japan, Korea, China, the United Kingdom and the United States. Then it examines how...
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“What Happens to My Facebook Profile When I Die?”: Legal Issues Around Transmission of Digital Assets on Death

Edwards, Lilian; Harbinja, Edina

Pages: 115 –144

[This chapter will address the social and legal problems of transmission of digital assets on death. It questions whether existing well-known systems of laws and norms for transmission of property and assets on death are fit for the purpose of bequeathing the new “digital assets”. These assets...

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