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Title:
The afterlife of data : what happens to your information when you die and why you should care / Carl Öhman.
ISBN:
9780226828220
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Publication Information:
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2024]

©2024
Physical Description:
199 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
Introduction : a collective matter -- From bones to bytes -- How to think about digital remains -- The rise of the digital afterlife industry -- Who owns the (digital) past? -- Living in the post-mortal condition -- Epilogue.
Summary:
"In recent years, more and more of our lives takes place online. But what about our afterlives? Thanks to the digital trails of data we leave behind, much of 'who we are' can be reconstructed even after our death. Carl Öhman asks us to consider what happens to our data after we pass away. How do we decide what data should be preserved? What sorts of ethical issues does it raise? We live in what Öhman calls the post-mortal condition, one in which the dead and the living coexist online through digital remains. Examining government digital heritage committees, public archives, NGOs, museums, and commercial institutions, Öhman analyzes various forms of data preservation and digital reanimation, ultimately calling for us, as a society, to acknowledge and to engage creatively with our condition. He calls for us to reevaluate the relationship between the living and the dead, and to work together to create a shared ethics of preservation"-- Provided by the publisher.
OCLC Number:
on1384443785
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