cipher-fresh: winedark:E-MORTALITY / @blueskies-bluescreens / status of a steam user / death, virtua
cipher-fresh: winedark:E-MORTALITY / @blueskies-bluescreens / status of a steam user / death, virtual grief and your digital footprint by kelley edwards and johanna j. lunn / STurner4077 on twitter / the new forms of mourning: loss and exhibition of the death on the internet (2016) by julie alev dilmaç / description for all the ghosts in the machine: illusions of immortality in the digital age (2019) by elaine kasket [ID: “Did you know? When a person dies, the information they have shared on the internet may remain there for years. While social networking accounts are often deleted by relatives or inactivity failsafes, other information is left behind indefinitely. Even now there are a massive number of blogs, emails, comments and photographs that belong to the departed. It is easy to imagine that some of these posts will outlast those alive today and go on to become historical artifacts. It is theorized that in the internet’s future more content will belong to the dead than the living”“Last online 7 years ago” “There is no discrimination in the digital world. When a person dies, their virtual selves can reman, existing in the same online space used daily by billions of people, It’s a double-edged cyber-sword, a reminder of our loss, but also a thread that keeps us connected. A place to tell stories about loved ones, to laugh, cry and be comforted. In this way, social media has also become a space for grief.”“Sherri Turner@STurner4077I look at my mum’s old house on Google maps street view, the house where I grew up. It says “Image captured May 2009, There is a light on in her bedroom. It is still her house, she is still alive, I am still visiting every few months on the train to Bodmin Parkway,”“Death on the InternetPersonal webpages of the deceased are common on the Web. Although no one owns them, they continue to exist: The deceased’s image “remains” and migrates like a ghost ship (Pène, 2011) in cyberspace.“ For example, MyDeathSpace.com counts 116 deceased people among its users,”“Seen any ghosts on your smartphone lately?” /End ID] -- source link
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