Mine, yours, ours: family discussions on digital legacy

Lira, Maria Fernanda; Maciél, Cristiano; Trevisan, Daniele; Barbosa, Simone Diniz Junqueira; Bim, Sílvia Amélia

doi:10.1145/3554364.3559123

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“…Posthumous data management inevitably raises questions of ownership and legacy, which manifest in at least two ways: inheritance and post‐mortem data and profile persistence. Research on this theme questions how digital legacy passes from one generation to another (Bellamy et al, 2013a; Lira et al, 2022) and what happens with the boundaries of ownership, access, and governance over personal archives when survivors engage in the personal collection of the deceased (Acker & Brubaker, 2014). Solutions suggested in the literature include proactive practices of individuals such as leaving passwords while alive (Leaver, 2013), social media providers encouraging users to make decisions to manage their accounts proactively (Guzman, 2017), posthumous data planning assisted by data categorization and automated tools (Bahri et al, 2015; Kennedy, 2009), and stewardship as an alternative model to inheritance (Brubaker et al, 2014).…”

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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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