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Death and the Internet
Known as:
Death and social media
, Will for passwords
, Digital afterlife
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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
R. Harper
2016
Corpus ID: 181636910
The paper discusses some of the key HCI studies dealing with mortality and death and concludes that the overall research…
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2015
2015
Protecting the Digital Afterlife: Virginia's Privacy Expectation Afterlife and Choices Act
Mark Obesnshain
2015
Corpus ID: 157104839
2011
2011
Things to do in the digital afterlife when you're dead
Daniel Buzzo
2011
Corpus ID: 230181386
There are currently few procedures or public awareness about what happens to online digital identities after death. This paper…
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2005
2005
New hope for the dead
D. Langford
Nature
2005
Corpus ID: 4401750
Don't take this lying down!