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Death and the Internet

Known as: Death and social media, Will for passwords, Digital afterlife 
A recent extension to our cultural relationship with death is the increasing number of people who die having created a large amount of digital… 
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2016
2016
Making the case for an existential perspective on HCI research on death and mortality:Commentary
The paper discusses some of the key HCI studies dealing with mortality and death and concludes that the overall research… 
2015
2015
In bits, bytes and stone: Making sense of digital afterlife, remembrance and heritage designs
2015
2015
Protecting the Digital Afterlife: Virginia's Privacy Expectation Afterlife and Choices Act
2015
2015
Quand le marché s’empare de la mort numérique : analyse des prestations de services de digital afterlife
Lorsqu’un individu meurt, les traces numeriques qu’il a laissees de lui-meme sur internet perdurent. Les problematiques liees a… 
2011
2011
Things to do in the digital afterlife when you're dead
There are currently few procedures or public awareness about what happens to online digital identities after death. This paper… 
2005
2005
New hope for the dead
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