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The Afterlife of Data : What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: Undetermined Publisher: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Chicago Press, 2024Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:- 9780226828237
- 0226828239
- 9780226828220
- 302.23/1
- 302.23/1 23/eng/20230620
- HM851
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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. Sooner than we think, the dead will outnumber the living on Facebook, and in time, AI technology will allow us to "interact" with the departed. In this short, thought-provoking book, 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. This isn't just the duty of our digital overlords. These are our lives, our deaths, and it is time we think seriously about how we want our data to be treated"--PPN: PPN: 1907959203Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-4-NLEBK | BSZ-4-NLEBK-KAUB
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: A Collective Matter -- The New Natufians -- What Do We Do with the Digital Dead? -- Everyone's Concern -- 1. From Bones to Bytes -- Beginnings -- The Deep Time of the Dead -- The Portable Dead -- The Port from Which We Depart -- Where Are We Now? -- 2. How to Think about Digital Remains -- What Are Digital Remains? -- Ghost Cars and Prayer Bots -- The Informational Corpse -- Can the Dead Be Harmed? -- The Digital Encyclopedia of the Dead -- Brutus's Closet -- Not So Valuable After All? -- 3. The Rise of the Digital Afterlife Industry -- Ash & Martha
The Digital Afterlife Industry -- Critiquing the Industry -- Online Museums -- 4. Who Owns the (Digital) Past? -- Grave Dangers -- Who Is Worth Preserving? -- What If Facebook Goes Bust? -- Orwell's Warning -- Decentralizing Control -- 5. Living in the Post-Mortal Condition -- In the Shoes of Max Brod -- The Meaning of "Post-Mortal" and "Condition" -- Archeopolitan Duties -- What Is to Be Done? -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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