Introduction: Mortality in <i>Design</i>

Graham, Connor; Smith, Wally; Moncur, Wendy; Hoven, Elise van den

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“…Mortality and digital design are interconnected (Graham et al, 2018), and so there must be awareness of how particular design decisions influence people's reactions and responses to death (Mori et al, 2012). In HCI research the concept of thanatosensitivity has been put forward to actively consider end-of-life issues, including mortality, dying and death.…”

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Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Dinneen,

Krtalić,

Davoudi

et al. 2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Death is an inevitable part of life and highly relevant to information management: its approach often requires preparation, and its occurrence often demands a response. Many works in information science have acknowledged so much, and yet death is rarely a focused topic, appearing instead sporadically and disconnected across research. As a result there is no introduction to, overview of, or synthesis across studies on death and information. We therefore conducted an extensive literature search and reviewed nearly 300 scholarly publications at the intersection of death and information (and data) management. Covering seven topics in total, we review two groups of work directly engaging information management in relation to death (digital possessions, inheritance, and legacy; information behavior, needs, and practices around death), three engaging death and technology that require information and its management (death and the Internet, thanatosensitive design and technology‐augmented death practices, and the digital afterlife and digital immortality), and two reflecting the ethical and legal dimensions unique to death and information. We then integrate the collective findings to summarize the landscape of death‐related information research, outline remaining challenges for individuals, families, institutions, and society, and identify promising directions for future information science research.

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confidence: 99%

Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Dinneen,

Krtalić,

Davoudi

et al. 2023

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Introduction to the special issue “Digital mortality: Death and infrastructure”

Graham

Pang

Willems

2022

The Information Society

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The Internet in Asia through Singapore

Graham

Kerr

Pang

et al. 2018

East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Jo

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The Internet or, as these authors argue, internets (plural) in Asia are composed of cables and exchanges, protocols and firewalls, regulations and other legal devices, making them subject to investment and governance strategies, as well as treaties and court cases. But they are also composed of figures, layers, stories, and rumors. These latter descriptors provide a heuristic framework of social features that, together with metaphors from folklore, provide analytic tools for understanding the diversity, conflicts, competitions, and disengagements of the patchwork of internet development across Asia. The authors further argue that Singapore provides an exceptionally valuable comparative site from which to explore these features. The first part of this article lays out some of the comparative features, and the second part turns to the four themes or heuristics of figures, layers, stories, and rumors, developed through an STS research cluster at the Asia Research Institute and Tembusu College, both at the National University of Singapore. Keywords Internet ▪ Singapore ▪ folklore Acknowledgments We thank the reviewers for their generous and insightful comments on this article.

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Introduction: Mortality in Design

Abstract: Introduction: Digital Design for Mortals

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Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Introduction to the special issue “Digital mortality: Death and infrastructure”

The Internet in Asia through Singapore

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