tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61692843758145816502024-02-19T06:00:07.461+02:00Digital DustDeath in the Digital Era & Life After Death on the Net:
the Digital, Virtual and Online Aspects of Current Death
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Vered (Rose) Shavit's Blog
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death.in.digital.era@gmail.com **I left the Digital Death realms in Mar. 2018 and returned to them in Nov. 2023, but so far only to the Hebrew version of the blog**
ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-44359857272742243112018-03-02T20:34:00.000+02:002018-03-02T20:34:04.161+02:00My Retirement Post <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, March 2nd 2018, marks seven years since my brother was killed, and the day in which I retire from dealing with Digital Death matters. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I no longer have the <b>time </b>dealing with it needs: my father is ill (Dementia) and I've been increasingly dealing with family matters to the point where I don't have time for anything else. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I no longer have the <b>energies </b>and <b>emotional strength </b>dealing with it requires: having an elderly parent who is an ill, geriatric patient who requires full nursing care is sad and emotionally draining. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I've reached the point where I can't do this any more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope what I've already done in this field during the past seven years will be enough to make a difference. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're looking for another Israeli Digital Death researcher to interview, I recommend getting in touch with <b>Paula Kiel</b></span></div>
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Paula is a PhD candidate in the department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. </div>
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In her research project she is studying services dedicated to different forms of end-of-life planning online, enabling managing one’s presence online after their death. Her paper “The Emerging Practices of the Collective Afterlife: Multimodal Analysis of Websites for Post-mortem Digital Interaction” received the Best Student Paper award from the Association of Internet Researchers for 2016. </div>
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You can learn more about Paula’s project in this TEDx Talk she gave recently: "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfQBCi-6d3E" target="_blank">Keeping Communications Alive When You're Dead</a>". </div>
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More information and contact details can be found either on her <a href="https://onlineafterdeath.weebly.com/" target="_blank">website</a> or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/onlineafterdeath" target="_blank">Facebook Page</a>. </div>
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I will remain on the board of the Digital Legacy Association, however I don't know if and when I'll be able to contribute to it, unfortunately. </div>
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As for you: </div>
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<li>Please <b>back up</b>. Everything which might be dear to you or to your loved ones - back it up. </li>
<li>Please <b>DON'T </b>report people to Facebook as deceased. </li>
<li>Please think about your digital legacy, decide what you wish to happen with it - or not to happen with it after your death, and then, PLEASE <b>do </b>something about it. </li>
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ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-91527075033838625482018-03-01T14:27:00.001+02:002018-03-01T14:37:16.830+02:00What More Can Be Done? <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In April 2014 I attended the 1st <b>D</b>eath <b>O</b>nline <b>R</b>esearch <b>S</b>ymposium ( = DORS1) in the UK, as an attendee only. You can read about my experience here: <b><a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2014/11/my-summary-of-death-online-research.html" target="_blank">1st day</a></b>, <b><a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2014/12/my-summary-of-death-online-research.html" target="_blank">2nd day</a></b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 2nd </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">D</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eath </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nline </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">R</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">esearch </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">S</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ymposium took place in August 2015, also in the UK, and this time I knew that just being an attendee won't be enough for me. I also knew that I won't be interested in speaking about a survey or a paper, nor would I be interested in holding a panel and merely discussing things - fascinating as that may be. I'm a practical person, and I wished to come out of this opportunity of being surrounded by digital death experts from all over the world with - hopefully - something practical at hand. So when the call for papers for DORS2 came out, this was my somewhat unusual submission: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2013 an online survey titled "<b><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/digitaldustsurveyeng/" target="_blank">What Shall We Leave Behind?</a></b>" was held, regarding the digital legacy we and our loved ones shall leave behind. Some of its results were presented in a paper titled “<b><a href="https://www.academia.edu/13378736/Online_Legacies_Online_Service_Providers_and_the_Public_a_Clear_Gap" target="_blank">Online Legacies: Online Service Providers and the Public – a Clear Gap</a></b>“ (2014, Tzezana & Shavit). The paper focused on the current gap as portrayed through the results of this survey between the wishes of families of modern deceased to gain access to their beloved ones' online legacy posthumously and the websites, platforms and online service providers' policies and practices in this regard. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The unique opportunity of DORS 2015: Death Online researchers and experts of various disciplines gathered together at the same time and place could be used for sharing ideas and knowledge. A brainstorming regarding <b>what more can be done? </b>- practically and in all sectors: business, governmental, private, non-profit: raising awareness, finding solutions, creating a change. In the previous symposium Astrid Waagstein shared a <a href="http://livogdoed.dk/temaer/min-sidste-vilje/" target="_blank">Danish solution</a> in her presentation which was un-known to most of the attendees and curiosity arises towards the possible outcomes of the next symposium. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The suggested format is: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was very happy when the committee of organizers accepted my submission. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since I came back in August 2015, the materials I gathered during the second half of this session lay in wait, waiting for me to summarize them. This journey wasn't easy for me, neither emotionally (the symposium was held during Tal's 60th birthday) nor physically (as I was travelling on a budget, it turned out my flights and accommodation during my stay in the UK were extremely uncomfortable), and I traveled alone. I came back drained, exhausted and weary, and I just put all of these materials aside then, and since then. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, before I retire, it became very clear to me that I wish to re-visit those materials and sum them up, so they will be publicly published. I thank Ronit Lavy, Guy Sharett and Michal Adam for helping me bring them to light, as I've had very little time I could dedicate to this right now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I thank all the DORS2 attendees who participated in this session for their generous sharing of their ideas, knowledge and expertise. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After I <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRSdTa3LRJ8" target="_blank">presented</a> the existing solutions I’m aware of, and the not-yet-existing solutions I came across or thought about, all the attendees were divided into smaller discussion groups for a “round table” session, in which I asked the people in each group to both share with each other which Digital Death solutions they are already aware of, that perhaps the people around them are not yet familiar with, and to suggest new Digital Death solutions that do not yet exist, or have not been implemented yet, and hopefully, possibly, could be, would be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In some groups more question marks or debates surfaced than the practical solutions I was aiming for / hoping for, but that was fascinating in itself, and in a way, perhaps not surprising: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I realize that as academics some of the participants focus more on generating discourse and raising ethical questions rather than seek pragmatic solutions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The most repeated words around the room were “<b>Education</b>” and “<b>Awareness</b>”:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One group wondered how <b>young </b>do people need to be in order to learn about Digital Death issues, and their answer was: pretty young. An education about the value of digital assets and of digital value should be taught from a young age. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“There are some <a href="https://whatsyourgrief.com/childrens-books-about-death/" target="_blank">lovely <b>children’s books</b> about <b>understanding death</b></a> – <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/heather-feldstein/books-kids-death_b_1140353.html" target="_blank">those could also be about</a> <b>understanding </b>what it means to <b>be online </b>and what it is to <b>die online</b>”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A need for better <b>digital literacy</b> was mentioned, and existing educational projects like Barclay’s <a href="https://www.barclays.co.uk/digital-confidence/eagles/" target="_blank">Digital Eagles</a> in the UK, which helps people build their internet and computer skills, were mentioned as a possible solution: to have Digital Death issues taught as part of it. <br />A “Digital Eagle” <b><a href="https://www.home.barclays/news/2017/06/in-the-world-the-digital-eagle.html" target="_blank">trained 2,100 nurses</a></b> to <b>use computer tablets</b>, for example (nurses will be mentioned soon by another group as important agents) – the “eagle” could have just as easily raised Digital Death issues while she was at it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In other examples, the “Digital Eagles” teamed up with “<a href="https://www.abbeyfield.com/" target="_blank">The Abbeyfield Society</a>” charity or the “<a href="http://www.fote.org.uk/" target="_blank">Friends of the Elderly</a>” charity and hosted series of <b>free iPads </b>and <b>laptops sessions </b>with <b>senior citizens</b>: another classic option for teaching about Digital Death matters while they’re at it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">General question marks mentioned in these regard were: “<b>Who </b>are the <b>educators </b>/ <b>awareness raisers</b>? Why? Who needs to be reached? How?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Possible general solutions mentioned were: “To <b>include </b>Digital Death education in <b>schools </b>and <b>colleges</b>”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another group mentioned the need to promote Digital Death awareness through <b>acceptance of death</b>, as once people are more willing to talk about death in general, they will also be more willing to talk about Digital Legacy in specific. The fact that we live in a death denying society acts as a barrier in Digital Death matters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Collaboration with “</span><a href="https://www.dyingmatters.org/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Dying Matters</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">” as an example comes to mind, as they “</span><a href="https://www.dyingmatters.org/overview/about-us" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Aim to help people</a> <b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">talk more openly about dying, death and bereavemen</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t, and to </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">make plans for the end of life</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">”, and they hold an annual “</span><a href="https://www.dyingmatters.org/AwarenessWeek" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Dying Matters Awareness Week</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">” </span><a href="https://www.dyingmatters.org/page/map-awareness-week-events-2017" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">all around England and Wales</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">: raising Digital Death awareness could easily be implemented into it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Michael Jordan <a href="https://youtu.be/aOMxIU5zkQ8" target="_blank">promoting organ donations</a> in 1994 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Regarding the <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2012/07/before-death-managing-your-digital.html" target="_blank">many Digital Death solutions which already exist</a>, some in the form of phone applications, one group rightly stated that: “in order to use these apps, the person has to <b>first be aware</b>”. </span></div>
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“We spoke a lot about Terms & Conditions and then we took a step back: instead of waiting for a crisis moment to arrive, we should start by becoming more aware of <b>what </b>we share, <b>when </b>we share it, <b>why </b>we share it, with <b>whom </b>we share it, what we want that to be and what our <b>values </b>are, to begin with. </div>
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We see raising Digital Death awareness as part of raising<b> digital awareness</b> and <b>digital sharing awareness</b>, especially in relation to <b>privacy</b>. </div>
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Perhaps the order should be to first raise digital awareness and Digital Sharing awareness – and <b>then </b>to raise Digital Death awareness”. </div>
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Turns out <b>awareness isn’t enough</b>, though. One group said: “We spoke about awareness: all these people, like us, who study about Digital Death - <b>none </b>of us around this table have made an actual will, not to think about how many of us made a digital will”. </div>
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I was very much surprised – and a little alarmed – to learn this, so I asked all the attendees to show by a raise of hands who has already taken care of their Digital Death, and I was dismayed to see those of us who did were the minority! </div>
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The group said: “It’s a question people don't want to think about if you are healthy - even if you are researching these topics”. </div>
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Another angle mentioned by more than one group was being <b>part of larger issues</b>, to think about a <b>global scale</b>. One of the groups said: </div>
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“We talked about the digital ethics stuff which is happening at the moment. Things like the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/12/online-magna-carta-berners-lee-web" target="_blank"><b>Magna Carta</b> for the internet</a> which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee" target="_blank">Tim Berners-Lee</a> is working on and the Southbank Center<b> <a href="https://webwewant.org/" target="_blank">Web We Want</a></b> <a href="https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/festivals-series/web-we-want" target="_blank">Festival</a> (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/southbankcentre/albums/72157649322926106" target="_blank">2014</a>, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/southbankcentre/sets/72157654643921345" target="_blank">2015</a>). Talks about <b>Digital Citizenship</b>, or: <b>what are we</b> in the digital era? Are we <b>digital citizens</b>? Are we <b>digital consumers</b>? Are we <b>Digital Accessers</b>? And the kind of debates that are brought out from that. </div>
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People are thinking about human rights and what our <b>human rights online</b> are: the death debate <b>should be involved in this</b>. We need to not only look for, or focus on, existing solutions, but also to raise question marks of how do we <b>fit in</b> into those existing solutions, and create more spaces for collaborations”. </div>
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Another group expressed a wish for Digital Death <b>legalization </b>on a <b>global scale</b>, with <b>strict instructions </b>that have been adopted by <b>governments</b>, <b>clear </b>guidelines for organizations and a clear understanding of how Digital Death solutions need to be performed, with options made very visible. “There’s no automatized legislated system that takes care of all that’s left”. </div>
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Another group mentioned that when we aspire for <b>global solutions</b> we ought to take <b>different cultures</b> into account: in certain cultures privacy might carry a heavier weight than family bonds, and vice versa, which might create <b>cultural tensions</b>, so culturally specific guidelines will be necessary. </div>
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The next step was, naturally, the mention of corporations and companies: </div>
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“We spoke about corporate responsibility for data management and about companies that <b>should be held responsible</b> for their dealing with Digital Death matters and for their <b>outdated Terms and Conditions</b>.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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They still think of the user as an <b>individual</b>, instead of a <b>relational </b>user: it’s not an individual sharing data just for themselves! They need to start thinking about <b>relational users</b> rather than <b>individual users</b>, and to start using <b>dynamic Terms and Conditions</b> in consequence.</div>
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“There’s also the question of <b>monetization </b>of <b>personal data</b>, because we’re not receiving a service from companies like Facebook: <b>we are their product</b> and <b>they monetize us</b>. Therefore, whenever we talk about and suggest new solutions, we have to be mindful that <b>we are a product being sold</b>”.</div>
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“We were talking about <b>policy and law</b> being<b> third level</b>, which takes a <b>long time</b> to access, then <b>education </b>being <b>middle level</b>: it takes <b>a bit of time</b> and we're working towards these things – but we need really <b>short term</b> and <b>immediate </b>solutions that people can just implement very easily”.</div>
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“Things need to <b>be easy to do</b>. We were talking about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keychain_(software)" target="_blank">Apple Keychain</a>, how Apple automatically offers you to save your password: why doesn't it also offer you to save it into a safebox as well, for example? It's a really <b>simple </b>thing: an <b>extended keychain</b>. Every time you enter a new password, it can <b>automatically get saved</b> somewhere where people can access it later (If that is your wish, of course)”.</div>
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“We talked about <b>individuals having the right to decide what happens to their data</b>, so when we sign up to an account, choosing it’s fate in case of death <b>should be a default</b>. As soon as we sign up to an account, we need to be asked. We already consent by default to so much – this should be our choice”. </div>
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“One of the key elements is <b>simplicity</b>, in order to change something it <b>needs to be very straight forward</b>, it needs to be<b> very simple</b> and <b>accessible for everybody</b>. We saw some documentation that the <b>Swedish </b>government started taking care of Digital Death matters, but it doesn’t look very accessible, not to everybody. And if it won’t be simple – it won’t be”. </div>
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“We were talking in terms of education about <b>who </b>are we <b>educating</b>, who are the <b>gatekeepers </b>of <b>education</b>. In the <a href="http://livogdoed.dk/temaer/min-sidste-vilje/" target="_blank">project</a> we learned about <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2014/12/my-summary-of-death-online-research.html" target="_blank">last year</a> from <a href="http://astridwaagstein.dk/" target="_blank">Astrid Waagstein</a>, taking place around hospitals in <b>Denmark</b>, the idea there was that the <b>nurses </b>were the <b>educators</b>, so when you inform the nurses, you reach a much wider network. We need to identify those gatekeepers in the various different industries, that would then be able to inform the rest of the industry or a wide range of people”.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"<a href="http://livogdoed.dk/temaer/min-sidste-vilje/" target="_blank">Min Sidste Vilje</a>" by <a href="http://www.livogdoed.dk/">www.livogdoed.dk</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"<a href="http://livogdoed.dk/temaer/min-sidste-vilje/" target="_blank">Min Sidste Vilje</a>" by <a href="http://www.livogdoed.dk/">www.livogdoed.dk</a> </span></div>
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“It’s very important to identify the <b>right agents</b>, whether it’s <b>care-givers</b> or <b>nurses</b>, or people that are working in places with close approach to death and dying. If they will be aware of the existing Digital Death services, they could forward that knowledge onwards. In some cultures it’s very common - in the US, for example – to make <b>checklists </b>and <b>bucket lists</b>. What you’re choosing to <b>prepare </b>before you’re gone could be – should be – part of such lists, including Digital Death matters. Which brings us back to the need for <b>simplicity</b>: digital instructions should be part of such lists, and simple”. </div>
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Their mentioning of a checklist brought to mind the following website with it’s unforgettable name: “<b>Get your shit together</b>”. It’s just such a checklist, created by a widow after the sudden and tragic loss of her husband. </div>
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“Key issues in order to change will be people’s need of more <b>inspiration </b>and more <b>support</b>. We think in order to promote such a change, there will be need of a service supplying <b>online support groups</b>. You'll be able to choose your relevant support group and there be able to understand more and learn from others - without getting too exposed to people who will not understand what you’re doing or looking for. Support groups <b>specifically </b>for managing your digital legacy and your Digital Death”. </div>
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“We talked about how are you going to identify content to delete: do we need an <b>executor </b>role, or something which <b>automatically deletes </b>all the “crap”, leaving only the precious stuff for people to inherit behind? Do you need a <b>professional editor </b>of your <b>life</b>, either before or after your <b>death</b>?”</div>
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“What I think is precious or my kids think is precious may be totally different. Having a <b>cleanup </b>version, a “<b>detox</b>” - we’re gonna get different perspectives on what’s valuable. We should have a delete / cleanup / detox option”. </div>
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ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-91613040602826328522018-02-21T12:48:00.000+02:002018-02-21T12:50:23.458+02:00I was invited to speak at the Knesset again in July 2017 <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On July 4th 2017 I was invited to speak (again) at the Knesset, in a discussion held by the <b><a href="https://www.knesset.gov.il/committees/eng/committee_eng.asp?c_id=13" target="_blank">Science and Technology Committee</a></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> regarding digital legacy and estate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To Jim Lamm of <b><a href="http://www.digitalpassing.com/" target="_blank">Digital Passing</a></b> for reviewing the USA list. </span><br />
<br />ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-10479491580295148942018-02-20T11:05:00.000+02:002018-02-20T11:05:36.858+02:00The call for papers for DORS4 is out<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 4th <b>D</b>eath <b>O</b>nline <b>R</b>esearch <b>S</b>ymposium (DORS) will take place in England in August 2018. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The call for paper is <a href="http://cc.au.dk/fileadmin/dac/Forskning/Forskningsprogrammer/DORN_-_photos/DORS4callforpapers2.pdf" target="_blank">out</a>, you'll find all the information you need <a href="http://cc.au.dk/en/research/research-programmes/cultural-transformations/cultures-and-practices-of-death-and-dying/dorn/death-online-research-symposium-4/" target="_blank">in this link</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can read about DORS 3, which took place in Denmark in 2017, <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2017/03/the-third-death-online-research.html" target="_blank">here</a>, about DORS 2, which took place in England in 2015, <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2015/12/my-summary-of-death-online-research.html" target="_blank">here</a>, and about DORS 1, which took place in England in 2014, <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2014/11/my-summary-of-death-online-research.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It can be found on the TEDx YouTube channel <b><a href="https://youtu.be/vFPkEIGUofc" target="_blank">here</a> </b>(more than 21,500 views there and counting).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have you lost a loved one who has left digital traces of their life?</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.digitalmemories.info/" target="_blank">The Digital Memories Study</a> is a UK research study exploring the experience of being bereaved of a person who has left behind digital traces, and is now seeking participants.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These days we live so much of our lives online and using devices. As we post, chat, like, mail, tweet and surf, we leave traces of ourselves in digital spaces. When someone dies, these traces can live on after their death. In the past, when a person died, bereaved people could look back at physical memories of the dead: photographs, letters, and personal effects. In the digital age, bereaved family and friends can also have access to a great range of <i>digital </i>memories: photos, emails, social media accounts and activity, messages, videos etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Digital Memories Study is exploring the experience of being bereaved of a person who has left behind these often vast a varied digital remains of their life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interview friends & family of people who have died & left behind digital material (interviews in </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">person, via phone or video calling).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Adults (18+)</b> bereaved of a person who has left <b>digital traces</b> of their life. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The deceased must have been <b>18+ at time of death</b>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The deceased must have died between <b>3 months ago & 5 years ago</b>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Particularly seeking <b>multiple people </b>affected by a death, as well as <b>individuals</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Material left online & on digital devices by, or relating to, the deceased e.g. text </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">messages, emails, social media activity, blog posts, photos, videos, playlists, gaming histories etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:digital.memories@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">digital.memories@nottingham.ac.uk</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+44 (0)799-905-9011</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or visit: <a href="http://www.digitalmemories.info/" target="_blank">www.digitalmemories.info</a></span><br />
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ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-77576479617901456732017-08-21T13:14:00.001+03:002017-08-21T13:14:57.960+03:00The Blog and I are on a break<p dir="ltr">The blog and I are on a break. <br>
I will update if and when we'll be back. <br>
If you tried to get in touch with me and couldn't, I apologize. <br>
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ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-14951207002403523922017-07-03T21:43:00.002+03:002017-07-03T22:12:26.449+03:00A Digital Death Survey in the UK<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An anonymous <b><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfT60jhLsruvfeO6s0xNOP3EJRCIqxsX4DYHdFjcD0iFNEHwg/viewform?c=0&w=1" target="_blank">Digital Death Survey</a></b> is being held these days in the UK by <a href="https://digitallegacyassociation.org/" target="_blank">The Digital Legacy Association</a>. I first mentioned them to you in a <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2016/03/a-new-project-launched-in-uk-today.html" target="_blank">post</a> in March 2016. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The results from the 2014 survey can be found <b><a href="https://digitallegacyassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Digital-Death-Survey-Infographic-compressed-resizedCompressed-resized-copy-version-3.jpg" target="_blank">here</a></b>, and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the results from the 2015 survey can be found <a href="https://digitallegacyassociation.org/about/reports/" target="_blank">here</a> (data collected in 2015, infographic created in 2016), and here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What Happens To Our Digital Remains When We Die?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2011 an email from my brother showed up in my inbox. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It had no subject, and the message contained a single link. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the next three weeks several such messages arrived, and I kept feeling frustrated and helpless. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Those emails arrived in April.<br />A month earlier, in March, my brother was killed when hit by a car.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Those emails weren’t written by him: his email account was hacked, and his entire contact list received a strain of spam messages, until it was flagged, and shut down.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I took it upon myself to neatly and respectfully “fold” my brother’s digital life <i>after him*</i> – just like our family was doing with his physical life – I had no idea what I was getting myself into, nor, how difficult it would turn out to be. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Which is why I started writing about dying in this digital era: since I was introduced to the world of “Digital Death”, I’ve felt a strong need to introduce it to others - without them having to first lose a loved one.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Digital Death” is a term to denote everything that happens – or doesn’t happen – to our digital data and devices, online accounts and virtual presence after we die. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Have you ever thought about how many digital accounts you have? The kind you log into with a user name and a password? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You probably have more “Personal Accounts” than you realize: this term refers to anything we log into online with a user name and a password: all the websites we ever signed up to. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A <a href="https://blog.dashlane.com/infographic-online-overload-its-worse-than-you-thought/" target="_blank">study</a> from 2015 found that the average user had 90 such accounts, with the number predicted to double every five years. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sounds like a lot, right? </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I know I was surprised when I checked the Password Manager I use: it currently holds my usernames and passwords to 253 online log-ins.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Assuming some are no longer relevant, several are duplicates and a few are just Wi-Fi accesses, that still leaves us with, what? – 150? 200?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our digital space and devices now practically hold every aspect of our lives: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From life-long collections of music, movies, books, texts, videos, pictures, memories - through our banking records and the personal or professional documents and records for managing a house-hold or a business - all the way to our metadata. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once we are gone, all of this is left behind. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It’s an unsolved problem, as in most cases we don’t know each other’s passwords – let alone all 90 or 253 of them - nor, what the wishes of the deceased were, as it was never discussed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In most cases we don’t know what the after-death policy of the sites we use, is. Even if you are one of those rare people who do read the Terms of Use, in some cases you still won’t be able to know what the after-death policy is, as it’s not published. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And if you do find out, you might be alarmed to learn this policy is against your wishes – whatever that wish may be – <i>or that the site won’t respect your wish, even if you were to express it*,</i> as transferring a user account or its details might be a violation of the Terms of Use. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most countries and states don’t have “Digital Death” regulations or laws yet, or if they do, they’re insufficient: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For example, the law might address only the deceased’s email accounts, as is the case in Rhode Island, or if it does address ALL of the deceased’s online accounts - it only lets you shut them down, as is the case in Nevada. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The British law might deem accessing someone else’s account as a criminal offence, and the American law (state or federal) might see it as a crime even if you were appointed by the deceased. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Further confusion comes with the differences in international law, as well as where you or your accounts are located in relation to the location of the servers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The result is that most - if not all - of the dozens or hundreds of accounts each one of us <i>leaves behind*</i> become unreachable. This means not just the colossal digital loss we might experience - which could also lead to real financial loss – but also that these accounts remain out there: existing, floating, uncontrolled. People may continue to use, engage and interact with them - without our consent, knowledge or being able to do anything about it - possibly in ways neither the deceased nor we would want. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>We are used to thinking of wills, legacies, heritage, bequeathing and planning ahead as relevant to older, wealthier people, but Digital Death is relevant to everybody: you don’t have to be rich in order to accumulate a vast digital world, and, in fact, the younger you are, the more online activity you’re likely to have*. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And digital loss is not just personal. It can be communal, cultural: <br />For instance: we nearly lost all the manuscripts of 36 year-old Iranian-American, international bestseller author, <a href="http://marshamehran.com/" target="_blank"><b>Marsha</b> <b>Mehran</b></a>. She was found dead, alone, in Ireland, in 2014, and her father, Abbas, had to <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/2015/08/28/who-owns-your-digital-afterlife/" target="_blank">fight</a> in order to retrieve her digital manuscripts from their cloud storage provider.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First steps in the right direction were made when two in-house services were launched: Google’s “<a href="http://digital-era-death.blogspot.co.il/2013/04/blog-post_14.html" target="_blank">Inactive Account Manager</a>” in 2013 and Facebook’s “<a href="http://digital-era-death.blogspot.co.il/2015/09/blog-post.html" target="_blank">Legacy Contact</a>” in 2015. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These let you leave certain instructions for your accounts in case of death. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But Google’s service doesn't let you share access to your accounts, and Facebook’s won’t let you pass access to your account, nor can you choose to not have your profile memorialized.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I’m guessing most of you don’t know about these services, as both companies choose not to communicate them directly to their users. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Facebook, once a person is r<a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/1506822589577997/" target="_blank">eported</a> as deceased – which can be reported by anyone, including complete strangers – that profile is "Memorialized”, with no prior warning. From that point onward, it is frozen and can no longer be accessed – even if you do have the right username and password, along with the deceased’s permission.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Google <a href="https://support.google.com/accounts/troubleshooter/6357590?hl=en" target="_blank">says</a> in Certain Circumstances it may provide content from a deceased user's account.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Which circumstances? They don’t specify.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You might be thinking: "Hey, I’ll be dead! I don't care about some files or devices". You'd be right, of course. You won't care. But the people you love, and those who loved you, might care, for both sentimental and practical reasons. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You might prefer that your privacy be maintained after your death – sometimes especially from your loved ones. This is legitimate, important and should be respected. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want to emphasize: I'm not saying the deceased don't have a right to privacy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The thing is that there is no one right answer to suit all, therefore, it should be your decision, and not some company's customer relations' department's. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You<b> </b>should be given the choice - and the means - to decide the fate of your digital after-life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I believe it’s time we started educating ourselves about this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you are a psychologist, lawyer, social worker, care giver, hospice staff, you should tell the dying people or bereaved families you’re working with, that there is one more thing they need to be aware of: “Digital Death”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you are in charge of people risking their lives in service: cops, soldiers, fire fighters: I believe they deserve to be told - before they leave their house the next time - that there is one more thing they should be aware of: “Digital Death”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you, as a person, as an individual, are already aware and concerned about Digital Death by this point:</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wish I could give you a solution. I can’t. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is no one solution: it depends on which sites you’re using, what their policies or Terms of Use are, where you live and if there is any relevant legislation there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But there are a few things you can do:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Think about all the devices and accounts you’re using: Is your computer password protected? Is there an unlock pin code on your Smartphone? Will someone be able to keep using your iPhone or iPad without your Apple ID? Will access or copies be needed of the important documents only you had and were kept in cloud storage, like taxes or mortgage? Should your online videos and pictures still be available? Think about it –– and make a decision.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whatever your choice is, whether you wish for some or all of your devices and accounts to be accessed or not, share your decision. Tell someone you trust, leave written instructions in a safe place where they could easily be found, sign up to a third-party or an in-house service that manages digital accounts - while remembering that new accounts get opened and passwords get changed - so relevant information needs to be updated regularly.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Push to change current policies and laws. Make sure the voices of individual people and <a href="http://pilotonline.com/opinion/columnist/guest/rash-a-burden-no-grieving-family-should-have/article_cca390ed-a8aa-5a1b-8b7e-0f364b6e1cf5.html" target="_blank">bereaved families</a> are heard too - not just the voices of the lobbyists of the tech industry.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’m not a businessperson, a salesperson or anyone’s agent. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is my brother, Tal Shavit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was 55 and a half years old when killed, on the spot, by a car, driven by a reckless driver, on March 2nd 2011. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When a loved one dies, there is so much pain, sorrow and hardship we can do nothing about.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let’s at least do something to spare additional pain, sorrow and hardship, which we can do something about. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please introduce this idea to as many people as possible, so they too will be aware of Digital Death - as you are now - without having to lose a loved one first. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2017/01/the-path-to-tedxwhitecity-2017.html" target="_blank">tight preparations schedule</a> for this TEDx led to my having my final text shortly before the event > which led to my having a very short and limited time in which to learn it by heart (in TEDx talks you speak by heart, there are no teleprompter or cards etc.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I would not have completed writing the text, learning it by heart and standing on stage if it weren't for the generous assistance I received during those <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2017/01/the-path-to-tedxwhitecity-2017.html" target="_blank">44 intensive days</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wish to say a <b>huge THANK YOU</b> to the following friends and family members: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Asaf Abir</b>, wizard of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of words and</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> texts, for his feedback on the first drafts which helped mereach the final drafts;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Gabi Argov</b>, who spent hours working with me on my English pronunciation, helping me learn the text by heart and instructing me in how to do a vocal warm-up before delivering the talk; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Yael Gaataon</b>, who reached the point of knowing my talk by heart herself from the many hours she spent helping me learn it, via Skype and Whatsapp, while she's in Denmark and I'm in Tel Aviv;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Shachar Bar </b>(non-biological brother), who did his best to take care of us speakers during the event and prior to it, from the technical and technological angles;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Frankie Simon</b>, who became sort of my research assistant;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Inbal Lottem</b> (biological sister), who became sort of my personal assistant, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Shmuel Shohat</b>, Master Story Teller, who sat with me for five hours straight before I wrote my first draft, talking to me about stories and how they are built. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wish to also say a </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">huge THANK YOU</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to someone who isn't in the friends and family category but still shows up every once in a while asking of his volition: "How can I help?": </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Daniel Alfon</b>, who "adopted" the blog and myself a few years ago, and since then has helped in his <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/danielalfon/18-common-linkedinmistakesdanielalfon" target="_blank">areas of expertise</a> and given me good advice in general. Thank you for caring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had my final text <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2017/01/the-path-to-tedxwhitecity-2017.html" target="_blank">five days before the event</a> > which meant that when I sent parts of the talk to international Digital Death experts for a peer-review of sorts, I had to ask them to get back me during the next 24 hours, which borders on being rude. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Thank you so much </b>to: </span><a href="http://www.digitalpassing.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><b>Jim Lamm</b></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.digitaloss.net/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Dr. <b>Selina Ellis-Gray</b></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.digitaldeath.eu/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><b>Stacey Pitsillides</b></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/WhosWho/PhdResearchers/PaulaKiel.aspx" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><b>Paula Kiel</b></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.thedigitalbeyond.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><b>Evan Carroll</b></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.headstuff.org/author/morna-o-connor/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><b>Mórna O' Connor</b></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (Mórna Ní Chonchúir) who despite this time-table got back to me with approval, correction or an improvment suggestion. It was very moving and made me feel nothing short of blessed, to have them responding to my call. It also made me feel calmer professionally before going on stage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A gigantic thank</b> <b>you</b> to people who cared and helped in many and various ways: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Efrat Ziv</b>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eran Lutvak</b>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Galya Passi Kitaro</b>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Guy Hoffman</b>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Jonathan Klinger</b>, <b>Lilach Cohen</b>, <b>Michal</b> and <b>Ido Ivri</b>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nativ Robinson</b>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Noam Holdengreber</b>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Sharon Peled Klarfeld</b>,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Sharona Reouveni</b>,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Shani Shaked</b>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Shiri Yeshua</b>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Sigal Strier</b>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Tovit Nizer</b>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Ziv</b> <b>Kitaro</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Thank you very much</b> to the friends who bought tickets so they could be in the audience and to those who called or wrote cause they couldn't. Fortunately there are too many of them for me to list here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you <b>Tom Ran</b> and <b>Eran Katz</b>, my fellow speakers, for our nightly correspondence support group ;) . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A<b> special thank you</b> to <b>Eminem</b> for "<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yhyp-_hX2s" target="_blank">Lose Yourself</a></b>", which I heard in a "loop" at home while I was writing the talk, as well as backstage on the day itself before going onstage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The positive side about the production not supplying us speakers with wardrobe and/or make-up artist was that I could hire my first choice for a make-up artist and purchase my first choice of what to wear: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%99-%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%9F-Make-Up-Artist-465582316859340/" target="_blank">Shiri Nisan</a></b> for the make-up, Dalia <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Braidstlv/" target="_blank">Braids TLV</a></b> for the braid, and Dana and all the <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/nox.telaviv/" target="_blank">Nox</a></b> team for the jumpsuit I was hoping for. </span><br />
<br />ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-83448265737963957952017-03-22T23:45:00.001+02:002017-03-25T11:30:43.218+03:00TEDxWhiteCity - The Day Itself <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumor has it the video will be online soon, so now seems like a good time to write the promised sequel to the post "<a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2017/01/the-path-to-tedxwhitecity-2017.html" target="_blank"><b>The Path to TEDxWhiteCity 2017</b></a>": </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10:30 <b>Part One</b>: Five speakers (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW0T8A9ImBc" target="_blank">Eran Katz</a>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It8lgaI9FbE" target="_blank">Leonard Brody</a>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Galia Benartzi, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rNieLV__TQ&t=3s" target="_blank">Roei Deutsch</a>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PztnVPikm8" target="_blank">Zaki Djemal</a>) and a performance (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzpZXj_FB08" target="_blank">Maria Kong</a>). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I had only <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2017/01/the-path-to-tedxwhitecity-2017.html" target="_blank">five days</a> to learn my talk by heart in, when the morning of the day of the event arrived, I didn't (!). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Therefore, from the moment I left the make-up room till the moment I went on stage (excluding a brief break to practice walking to the red carpet onstage once and a break for a vocal warm-up), which sums up to about four-five hours, I did nothing but going deep into the vast backstage-behind-the-stage area with my phone and earphones and listen to a recording of myself saying the talk. I heard myself in a "loop" over and over again, looking for ways to remember what the next bit I wanted to say was. From time to time I made some variations and heard something else in a "loop": Eminem's "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yhyp-_hX2s" target="_blank">Lose Yourself</a>" and I even danced it backstage once or twice, too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And now all that remains is to wait and see the video itself. </span><br />
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<br />ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-29646785859190194912017-03-13T16:02:00.001+02:002017-03-13T16:07:14.718+02:00The Third "Death Online Research Symposium"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://conferences.au.dk/DORS3/" target="_blank">The third "<b>Death Online Research Symposium</b>"</a> took place in March 2017 in Aarhus, Denmark. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I attended the two previous symposiums but unfortunately could'nt attend this one and therefore can't deliver a detailed summary of it as I did with the previous two (2014 <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2014/11/my-summary-of-death-online-research.html" target="_blank">Day 1</a>, <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2014/12/my-summary-of-death-online-research.html" target="_blank">Day 2</a>, 2015 <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2015/12/my-summary-of-death-online-research.html" target="_blank">Day 1</a>, <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2015/12/my-summary-of-death-online-research_29.html" target="_blank">Day 2</a>). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I bring the <a href="http://conferences.au.dk/dors3/programme-symposium/" target="_blank">programme</a> here even though I wasn't there in person as one of the ways to see where Digital Death is heading is to look at who the speakers are and which subjects they present, research and are interested in. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Keynote speaker:<br />Michael Hviid Jacobsen, professor, Aalborg University, DK: "<b>Beyond Ariès - Contours of 'Spectacular Death'</b>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Paper Session: "<b>Death and Society. Negotiating social agencies and relations</b>". Speakers: </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Johanna Sumiala, University of Helsinki, Finland</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anu Harju, Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Arnar Arnason, Aberdeen University, Scotland, UK</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Piergiorgio Degli Esposti, SDE Sociology and Business Law Department University of Bologna, Italy</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Keynote speaker:<br />Connor Graham, Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow, National University of Singapore: "<b>Human Mortality Humanness, Online Life and Death</b>"</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tobias Raun, University of Roskilde, DK</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anders Gustavsson, University of Oslo, Norway</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lisbeth Frølunde, Roskilde University, DK</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Luke van Ryn, University of Melbourne, Australia</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Keynote speaker: <br />Jed Brubaker, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder: " <b>Postmortem Interaction</b>"</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Carsten Stage, Aarhus University, DK & Tina Thode Hougaard, Aarhus University, DK</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">David Myles, University of Montreal and University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Aarhus University, DK, & Kjetil Sandvik, University of Copenhagen, DK</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ylva Haard af Segerstad, University of Gothenburg, Sweden</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Annett Markham, Professor MSO of Information Studies, School for Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark: "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Methods as Ethics: Challenges for studying death online</b>"</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Paula Kiel, London School of Economics and Political Science; London, UK.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jo Bell, University of Hull, UK</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stine Gotved, IT University, Copenhagen, DK.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sharon Greenfield, RMIT University, Australia.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Plenary panel: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">”Existential Terrains: Memory and Meaning in Cultures of Connectivity”, Dept. of Media Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Existential Terrains of Gender and Death Online</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Timothy Hutchings, Stockholm University, Sweden</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Michael Westerlund, Stockholm University, Sweden</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Katya Linden, Stockholm University, Sweden</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Charles Ess, University of Oslo, Norway</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Plenary discussion and wrap up: "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Addressing challenges in the academic study of Death Online</b> / <b>Future Dreams and Fantasies of the network</b>". </span><br />
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ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-6089998510010563162017-01-30T01:44:00.003+02:002017-03-22T23:56:25.385+02:00The Path to TEDxWhiteCity 2017<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>September 3rd 2016</b> Link for submitting a proposal to talk on <a href="http://tedxwhitecity.com/">TEDxWhiteCity 2017</a> arrives (Thank you Shir Peri) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">November 15th 2016</span></b> Acceptance </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">December 12th 2016</span></b> Work and preparations towards TEDxWhiteCity 2017 begin (<b>44 days</b> till January 25th 2017) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>December 18th 2016</b> Submission of 1st draft </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>January 16th 2017 </b>Submission of 6th draft (never finished the 5th. Wasn't happy with it) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">+ Skype call with TEDx team (half an hour) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>January 19th 2017</b> Submission of 7th and final draft </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>January 20th 2017</b> Learning by heart commences (<b>1621 </b>words, <b>five </b>days till January 25th 2017) + sending parts of the talk to Digital Death experts abroad for peer review / fact checking / remarks + </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Skype call with TEDx team (one hour) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>January 21st 2017</b> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Skype call with TEDx team (one hour) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>January 22nd 2017</b> Getting together for a toast with speakers, TEDx crew and "Virtuozo" crew </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>January 24th 2017</b> General rehearsal at the Opera House (Among the set of the opera "Lucia di Lammermoor") </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A separate post about the day itself will follow. >>> <span style="background-color: yellow;">Update</span>: <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2017/03/tedxwhitecity-day-itself.html" target="_blank">posted</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-50304705274898899892017-01-06T22:24:00.001+02:002017-01-06T22:28:07.982+02:00Discount for You, Readers<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The readers of this blog get a discount for purchasing tickets at <b><a href="http://tedxwhitecity.com/" target="_blank">TEDxWhiteCity</a></b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's a 10 % discount (if you manage to still catch an "Early Bird" ticket, this discount is in addition). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2016/12/january-25th-2017.html" target="_blank">See you on January 25th!</a> </b></span>ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-26849336688385505222016-12-26T17:38:00.001+02:002016-12-26T17:38:23.466+02:00January 25th 2017 <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm excited to let you know I'll be speaking at <b><a href="http://tedxwhitecity.com/" target="_blank">TEDxWhiteCity</a></b> on January 25th </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2017</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, at The Israeli Opera - Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's an entire day (10:00 - 17:00), filled with ideas, stories and performances. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The theme this time is: "<b>Destination: Unknown</b>". </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tickets are available at: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://tedxwhitecity.com/">http://tedxwhitecity.com/</a></span><br />
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<br />ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-54016328030282365792016-12-19T02:54:00.000+02:002016-12-20T10:28:15.458+02:002016: Summary<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In December 2014 I published a <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2014/12/so-whats-new-in-digital-death.html" target="_blank">summary of 2014</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In December 2015 I published a <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2015/12/so-whats-new-in-digital-death.html" target="_blank">summary of 2015</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As it's December 2016, <strike>I'm about to publish a summary of 2016</strike>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you noticed from the few blog posts, few Facebook page posts and few lectures I gave during 2016: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had to take time off for personal reasons, and it ended up being pretty much full on from January till now: My father is ill and my family and I went through (yet another) not simple nor easy year. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I took a long break from the blog and from the Digital Death realms. I'm coming back - not sure yet for how long - due to an event which shall take place at the end of January 2017. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'll let you know what it is soon, here in the blog, in the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/digital.dust.blog/" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> of the blog, and in the <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitalDustBlog" target="_blank">Twitter</a> account of the blog. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-82579112841214044552016-03-02T23:23:00.001+02:002016-03-09T13:33:49.124+02:00A New Project Launched in the UK Today: Digital Remains <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On May 20th 2014, Mórna O Connor, an Irish colleague and a friend, sent me an intriguing proposition: to take part in developing an RLO - a Reusable Learning Object - dedicated to Digital Remains. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks to Morna's hard work the <a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/rlos/death_dying_bereavement/digital_remains/" target="_blank">RLO is now online</a>. It launched today, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">March 2nd 2016,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> which marks five years since my brother, Tal Shavit, was killed, and is dedicated to his memory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/rlos/death_dying_bereavement/digital_remains/" target="_blank">The resource is a Reusable Learning Object (RLO) that’s freely available online</a>. It is a short interactive resource about what can be left digitally after death, how this can impact on the bereaved and what we, as members of the public and providers of health services, can do to better deal with this issue".</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The resource evolved from consultations with bereavement care staff about the role of technology in modern bereavement and grief. These care workers were uncertain about what can be left digitally after a death, why this differs from physical remains, how it impacts the bereaved, and what we can do about this issue. So, we invited these bereavement care professionals to participate, along with you, death studies academics from <a href="https://nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/srcc/index.aspx" target="_blank">The Sue Ryder Centre</a> and technology developers from <a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/helm/home.aspx" target="_blank">HELM</a> to create a resource that gives an introduction to these ideas and raises awareness about the modern experience of bereavement and grief. We think it will be helpful for anyone who works with bereaved people and those at the end of life, and of course for members of the public. We all need to become more aware of the range and implications of what we leave behind digitally after death. We hope this RLO will be a step toward doing this". </span></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.headstuff.org/2014/09/rest-pixels-will-remembered/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Mórna O Connor</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> researches death, dying and bereavement and the role of technology in health. She has just begun a PhD exploring the digital-age experience of bereavement.She is part of both </span><a href="https://nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/srcc/index.aspx" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">The Sue Ryder Care Centre for the Study of Supportive, Palliative and End of Life Care</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/helm/home.aspx" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Health E-Learning Media</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (HELM) research groups at the </span><a href="https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/index.aspx" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">School of Health Sciences</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. And she is also the narrator of the RLO! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have to say I envy her for having partners in the UK to collaborate with on <a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/rlos/death_dying_bereavement/digital_remains/" target="_blank">such a project</a> - just as I envy James Norris for </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">having partners in the UK to collaborate with on <a href="http://digitallegacyassociation.org/framework/" target="_blank">his project</a> (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Digital Legacy Association: <a href="http://digitallegacyassociation.org/" target="_blank">website</a>, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DigitalLegacyAssociation/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>).<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wish and hope I shall find partners for such collaborations in Israel too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I know that in both cases, even with their partners, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">neither of these two projects would have come into being </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">without their leadership, vision, hard work and dedication, and I am very grateful I got to play a part, however small, in them both.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please feel free to share the <a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/rlos/death_dying_bereavement/digital_remains/" target="_blank">RLO</a> with friends, family members and professionals working in counseling, end of life support, palliative care etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you Morna for the terrific work you've done and doing, for helping to not only raise awareness to these important issues but for creating actual tools to be used in this regard, and for pulling through through all the technological obstacles you faced while accomplishing this. </span>ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-28670295379643199242016-02-12T14:40:00.003+02:002016-02-12T14:50:14.672+02:00Be Kind: Backup <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Someone you care about is grieving? You wish to be helpful and don't know how? I have an idea for you: tell them to backup. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Backup? What do you mean "backup"? Do you think <b>now </b>is the right time to mention such a thing to the bereaved? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yes, I do: backing up videos, photos, texts and memories related to the deceased could be a very big - and very practical, meaningful and helpful - act of kindness. And not a moment too soon, too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following stories are all in Hebrew and from Israel, but I believe the story is a universal one (and would appreciate receiving relevant links and print screens in other languages): </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2016. Anat Dolev passes away. Her son begs for help retrieving her stolen smartphone with the last pictures of her on it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2015. Idan Shacham begs for help retrieving the stolen smartphone of Hodaya Goren. On it were pictures and memories of their recently deceased mutual friend Bar Shavit, who died a few months earlier. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2013. Tzach Cohen </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">begs for help retrieving</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the stolen smartphone of his sister, Noy. It was stolen shortly after her death. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is why telling grieving people to backup could be such an act of kindness. Because pictures, videos, texts and memories might be lost irretrievably, if they are only on a single device which might get stolen or broken - smartphone, tablet, laptop, computer. Do it gently, but do it: suggest that they back up as much as possible to cloud storing and/or a portable, external hard drive. If you really wanna be helpful bring all the necessary cables along and find out for them how could it be done with their specific device/s and/or operating system/s. Don't expect them to think about it themselves - they are grieving. This is what you, as someone who cares about them and wishes to assist and support them during this difficult time, could be there for. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When a tragedy occurs there is so much pain we can't do anything about and we can't ease. Let's at least ease up where we can and make sure the materials memories are made of are well kept. </span></div>
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ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-35816184070283904562015-12-31T20:19:00.000+02:002015-12-31T20:19:04.030+02:00Thank You<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The end of the year is a wonderful opportunity to say THANK YOU - or in my case: Thank Yous. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A previous version of "Thank You" from an earlier stage of the blog can be found <b><a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/p/acknowledgments.html" target="_blank">here</a></b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This list consists of people who have helped me (in regards to the blog) during the past year. It includes people from Israel, UK, USA, Germany, Finland and Denmark, who helped by emails, phone, Skype, Facebook, WhatsApp and face-to-face, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and are </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">readers of the blog, family members, friends, strangers and strangers who became friends. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It does not include the people who tag me when they come across something relevant or send me links they know I'll be interested in, as (luckily for me), they are too numerous to mention in name. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It does include the people who once / several times / on a regular basis help me, in a generous, dedicated manner, in many various ways: from advise, proof reading, language checking, editing, video editing, translating from English to Hebrew, translating from Hebrew to English, translating from Danish to Hebrew, making phone calls in Danish, rewriting, searching for data, searching for data in French, giving feedback, inviting to give paid for talks, lectures and lessons, introducing me to relevant people, graphic design, makeup, recommendations, lending equipment, filming video, analising statistic results, legal advice - to helping with the code of the blog and recording an audio track in a studio. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you to those who help when I ask and to those who help before I even get the chance to ask. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you to those who help <b>right now</b>, because this is when I need it:</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>this instance</b></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you to those who initiate a cooperation with me, to those who say "yes" when I invite them to cooperate with me, to those who attend the meetings I initiate and to those who help me, or at least try to help me, make the changes I wanna make. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you to those who make me laugh when they not only assist me free of charge, they also apologize for not doing it sooner / quicker :) . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you to those who even on those rare occasion in which I do try to pay them for they work, refuse to charge me for their professional assistance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you to those who support me in times of crises or meltdowns, thank you to those who support, encourage, appreciate, to those who help "spread the word" of what I'm doing / saying, the blog and the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/digital.dust.blog" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amir Cahane, Amir Shemesh, Anat Gelb-Price, Anu Harju, Asaf Abir, Aviad Dayan, Carmel Vaisman, Daniel Alfon, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Daniel Landau</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, Dor Nachman, Dvorit Shargal, Elad Raz, Eleanor Kantor, Frankie Simon, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Gali Halpern Wienerman, Galit Rubinstein, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Gili Meisler, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hagai Ginzboorg</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hila Tsairi, Ido Kenan, Ilan Shadai, Inbal Lottem, Inbal Saggiv-Nakdimon, Jakob Sabra, James Norris, Jonathan J. Klinger, Joseph Catran, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Katrin Döveling, Keren Elazari, Korina Giaxoglou, Lior Zalmanson, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ma'ayan Alexander, Matan Melamed, Meirav Darzi Meiri, MeyTal Greiver-Schwartz, Michael Diamond, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mórna O Connor, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Motti Shimoni, Moran Leshem Bar, Nimrod Benzoor, Nir Yaniv, Oded Yaron, Omer Levy, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Or Meidan, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul Solomon, Rachel (Berman) Madar, Rinat Korbet, Ronit Lavy, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Selina Ellis Gray, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Shimon Peretz, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Shiri Yeshua, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Shmuel Loutaty, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Stacey Pitsillides, Tal Bitton, Tal Guttman</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tzach Ben-Yehuda, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Uri Gonda, Yael Gaaton, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Yossi Glazer</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A special thank you goes to my parents, Maya and Eli Shavit. Without their significant support - including a substantial financial one - I could not have devoted myself to what I do the way I have these past few years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I even thank the handful of people tho refuse to meet me, who don't appreciate me or what I do (for lack of a degree or for not being part of the academia, for example), who refuse to help me - because by doing so they only make all those who do support, assist, encourage and appreciate stand out even more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I disagree with phrases such as "Everything happens for a reason" or "There is good in everything". <b>No</b>: some things happen for no reason what so ever, like a driver who acts recklessly on the road and kills my brother, and <span style="font-size: large;">there isn't, there hasn't been, there won't be and there could never be</span> anything good in or about my brother's death. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are some good things that happen or can happen <b>despite </b>him being dead. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> following his death, not in consequence of his death - <b>despite </b>his death. And the people who help me along the way are one of those good things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last Thank You in this list goes to Tal: a unique, vibrant, unusual and unforgettable character, who touches/d and affects/ed so many lives during his life - and after his </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">death, that hardly a talk of mine goes by without eyes in the audience "light up" as I mention him, or people nodding their heads when I talk about him, or someone doesn't come over afterwards to tell me about that time they met him / spoke to him / read what he wrote. And hardly a meeting goes by without there turning out to be a direct or indirect link to him. People help me in my own right, true, but many help me in his right. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you know, I didn't plan any of this. It just came into being. And I now have a job (and yes, it's a full time job and no, I don't make a living out of it yet and yes, <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/p/how-can-you-help.html" target="_blank">you can help</a>) which causes me to cry a lot, both because of the content I come across and because of my personal pain, and it's a job that makes me wonder from time to time if I'm crazy for doing it, and it's a job that makes me edgy whenever I see I was tagged somewhere in Facebook because I don't know if I was tagged in an adorable cats video or because someone had died. It's an odd thing to go through, whenever you see yourself tagged, wondering if someone had died. And I have a job which allows for many options to present themselves in Facebook when I look for either "Death" or "Digital": </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This job also fascinates me, it sometimes makes me go to sleep in the small hours of the night because an update arrived and I feel I <b>have </b>to write a post about it <b>right now</b>, a job that makes me check my email curiously in the morning because who knows what interesting updates arrived while I was asleep, a job that makes me feel I'm doing something important and significant and that I'm helping people through what I do - and it's dedicated to Tal. And along with my wishes to create a change on a bigger scale, when someone tells me that thanks to me the digital aspects of their lives are now in order and taken care of, I'm moved, because I know that if something were to happen to him/her, even just for his/her family, it's </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">all </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">worth it . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you. </span>ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-69371173531906232522015-12-31T03:14:00.000+02:002015-12-31T03:29:20.804+02:00So What's New in Digital Death?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The end of 2015 is a great excuse to look back and see what's new in Death. Digital Death. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Eterni.me </b>made a lot of noise when it first launched in January 2014 and has been silent since. In November she is heard from again: <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2015/11/self-commemoration-via-avatar-eternime.html" target="_blank">here is the post</a> I wrote about it. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a long struggle by Holli Gazzrd's family, which involved the media, after she was murdered in 2014, in November Facebook finally <b>removes </b>from her memorialised profile <b>pictures of her together with her killer</b>, from back when they were a couple. <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2015/11/when-facebook-isnt-sensitive-enough.html" target="_blank">Here is the post</a> I wrote about it. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A <b>new international design competition</b> launches in November: </span><a href="http://futurecemetery.org/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: right;" target="_blank">Future Cemetery Design Competition</a>. </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A new non-profit association presents itself in the UK in November: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.digitallegacyassociation.org/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;" target="_blank">Digital Legacy Association</a>. It offers a Digital Death </span><a href="http://digitallegacyassociation.org/framework/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: right;" target="_blank">framework</a> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">aimed at both people who take care of sick or elderly family members and professionals offering palliative care. A wonderful cooperation with UK hospices. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: right;">Another attempt at virtual immortality presents itself in October: </span><a href="http://humaitech.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: right;" target="_blank">Humai</a>. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Warning: when you enter the site music begins to play. Annoying. </i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eight years old Lake Bozman <a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/onlineathens/obituary.aspx?n=lake-bozman&pid=174769335&" target="_blank">dies of Leukemia</a> in May. In October, his parents, Anna Bozman and Travis Thompson, decide to <a href="http://metro.co.uk/2015/11/07/couple-make-their-dead-son-a-part-of-their-wedding-with-specially-enhanced-family-photo-5486655/" target="_blank">get married</a>. The photographer <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PrayersForLakeBozman/photos/a.251771521596531.57402.251686071605076/883776121729398/?type=3&theater" target="_blank"><b>adds Lake into the wedding picture</b></a>. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the most well known sites for digital legacy management, <b>Death Switch</b>, <a href="http://deathswitch.com/" target="_blank">shuts down</a> in October. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Yahoo </b><a href="http://mashable.com/2015/10/15/yahoo-mail-app-passwords/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-tech-link#WmKjZ83wQGqq" target="_blank">presents</a> a new <a href="https://mobile.yahoo.com/mail/?linkId=16124075" target="_blank">mail app</a> in October which<b> skips the password stage</b>, and I wonder if this is going to make posthumous access easier or more difficult. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Facebook continues to cause people pain, although unintentionally, through <a href="https://www.facebook.com/onthisday" style="text-align: right;" target="_blank"><b style="text-align: right;">On</b><span style="text-align: right;"> </span><b style="text-align: right;">this</b><span style="text-align: right;"> </span><b style="text-align: right;">day</b></a> memories who leap up at you. She tries to resolve this in October, by <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebook-day-users-control-memories/story?id=34446588" target="_blank">giving users more control</a> over the presented memories. Unsurprisingly it's not a good enough solution: you can't opt out of the thing all together. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In October, <a href="https://blog.lastpass.com/2015/10/lastpass-joins-logmein.html/" target="_blank"><b>LastPass and LogMeIn merge</b></a>. I hope this will bear fruit in the form of a legacy heir, like <a href="https://www.passwordbox.com/legacylocker" target="_blank">the one PasswordBox has</a> (previously known as Legacy Locker). </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: right;">In September Facebook announces it's <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/15/the-sorry-button/#.n0eqrt:S0sB" target="_blank">working on an empathy button</a>: <b>NOT </b>a dislike button: an empathy button. Hopefully this will make comments and reactions to online grief easier. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: right;">In September France offers it citizens an opportunity to<b> vote online regarding a new legislation</b> which includes a Digital Death bit: <a href="http://www.republique-numerique.fr/pages/in-english" target="_blank">English website</a>, <a href="https://www.republique-numerique.fr/" target="_blank">French website</a>, <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2015/09/new-digital-death-legislation.html" target="_blank">my post about this</a>. <a href="https://www.republique-numerique.fr/projects/projet-de-loi-numerique/consultation/consultation/opinions/section-1-protection-des-donnees-a-caractere-personnel/article-20-personnes-decedees" target="_blank">Here</a> is the relevant Digital Death part of it. </span></li>
<li><span style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, in September <b>the ULC bowes down</b> to the pressure applied to it by paid lobbyists of the big companies, and <b>changes the bill</b> it presented last year: here is the (very agitated and frustrated) <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2015/09/new-digital-death-legislation.html" target="_blank">post I wrote about it</a>. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taurean Summers, a paramedic, was transporting a patient to a hospital when the plane he was on crashed in 2014. His wife, Stephanie Summers, was five months pregnant with their firstborn. In September the photographer <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lgordillophoto/photos/a.169113479779928.40403.168384449852831/1041684395856161/?type=3&theater" target="_blank"><b>adds </b></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lgordillophoto/photos/a.169113479779928.40403.168384449852831/1041684395856161/?type=3&theater" target="_blank"><b>Taurean to the pictures of Stephanie and their son</b></a>. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: right;">Buzzfeed publishes in August a Digital Death <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsxh6O3y8cM" target="_blank">video</a> </b>they created. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: right;">Another attempt at virtual immortality presents itself in August: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: right;"><a href="https://www.eter9.com/auth/login" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: right;" target="_blank">ETER9</a>.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: right;">The trial of the <b>murderer </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">David Michael Kalac was </span><a href="http://www.portorchardindependent.com/news/294380301.html" style="line-height: 18.2px;" target="_blank">set to August</a><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">. <a href="http://www.newsjs.com/url.php?p=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/05/david-kalac-4chan_n_6110716.html" target="_blank">In 2014 he <b>uploaded to 4chan</b></a><b> </b>pictures and graphic details of the body and the killing, after murdering 30 years old Amber Lynn Coplin. </span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">In the 23rd <b>Def Con</b> which takes place in Las Vegas in August, the Australian Chris Rock <a href="https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-23/dc-23-speakers.html#Rock" target="_blank">explains</a> <b>how to virtually and digitally kill people</b>: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2966130/cybercrime-hacking/def-con-how-to-virtually-kill-someone-or-cash-in-on-fake-babies.html" target="_blank">link</a>, <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2966130/cybercrime-hacking/def-con-how-to-virtually-kill-someone-or-cash-in-on-fake-babies.html" target="_blank">link</a>. </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: right;"><a href="https://www.dashlane.com/" target="_blank">Dashlane</a>, the password manager app, <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/06/prweb12812283.htm" target="_blank">publishes a press release</a> in June regarding </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">emergency password access. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">In June it turns out you can <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2014/04/game_of_thrones_deaths_mourn_dead_characters_at_their_virtual_graveyard.html?wpsrc=fol_tw" target="_blank"><b>place virtual flowers on virtual graves</b></a> of TV shows that were discontinued and/or of TV characters that were killed in the line of duty, courtesy of </span></span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: right;">TV Graveyard</b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: right;">. Updates were posted in <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/06/24/tv_graveyard_mourn_canceled_shows_at_their_virtual_graveyard.html" target="_blank">August</a> and <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/10/18/the_walking_dead_deaths_mourn_dead_characters_at_their_virtual_graveyard.html" target="_blank">October</a>, to include more characters / TV shows. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Lane Smith was killed in July 2014, when Sierra Sharry was eight months pregnant with their firstborn, Taos. In April the photographer </span></span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1022738671086920&set=a.195678057126323.53770.100000523891130&type=3&theater" target="_blank">adds him to the pic</a></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">. </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sir Terry Pratchett dies on March 12th 2015. The same month a <b>petition </b>goes online, asking </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Death to r</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">einstate him. I wonder in which form or format it shall be presented if it r<a href="https://www.change.org/p/death-bring-back-terry-pratchett" target="_blank">eaches it's 35,000 signatures goal</a>. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Facebook launches it's <b>Legacy Contact</b> feature in February. <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2015/02/facebook-changes-their-posthumous.html" target="_blank">Here is the post I wrote about it</a>. And <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2015/10/why-am-i-saying-facebooks-legacy.html" target="_blank">here is another one</a>, explaining why this solution isn't good enough yet. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Amsterdam, the police <a href="http://www.popsci.com/amsterdam-police-respond-bot-created-twitter-threat" target="_blank"><b>responds to a death threat created by a Twitter bot</b></a> in February. Confused? You're not the only one. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AVG presents "<b><a href="http://www.avg.com/ebooks/dealing-with-digital-death" target="_blank">Dealing with Digital Death</a>" ebook</b> in February. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: right;"> <a href="http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/futures-of-the-end-of-life/" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">The Futures of the End of Life Symposium</a> will take place in Lancaster, UK, in January. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mórna O Connor will present in January a <b>Digital Death </b>reusable learning object. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second <b>Digital Legacy Conference</b> will take place in the UK in May. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The third <b>Death Online Research Symposium</b> will take place in October, this time in Denmark. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During 2016 the results of the <a href="http://futurecemetery.org/" target="_blank">international design competition</a> shall be revealed. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During 2016<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34249920" target="_blank"> Whitney Houston's "hologram" shall "tour"</a>. We've already seen a few artists perform posthumously - look at the <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2014/12/so-whats-new-in-digital-death.html" target="_blank">2014 summary post of mine</a>. </span></li>
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ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-22466218909685358632015-12-29T12:09:00.000+02:002016-02-16T01:42:56.190+02:00My Summary of "Death Online Research Symposium", August 2015, London, UK - Day 2<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My summary of Day One - August 17th - can be found <b><a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2015/12/my-summary-of-death-online-research.html" target="_blank">here</a></b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My study in an English village found a surprising </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">amount of loneliness and isolation amongst hospice </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">patients. I argue this is not because of the decline </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in English sociality, the problem is English </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sociality. One of the results of our study is a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">definition of social media. As it happens this is </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">especially important in the English context because </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the prior dualism between public broadcasting and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">private chat corresponded closely to the traditions </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of English sociality which also tended to split </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">between being friendly in public while defending </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the sanctity of the private home. Social media has </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">radically changed this from a duality of media to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">what we call scalable sociality which can bridge </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">between the private and the public through the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">group. I look at the implications this has for </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hospice patients both now and in the future. Partly </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">through the stories of two particular patients and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">their use of Facebook, which amongst other things, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">revealed how a mirror selfie can be extraordinarily </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">profound".</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Networked empathy and the art of dying. Blogging with and about cancer</b>: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yvonne Andersson, Stockholm University</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Un-controlled presence: post-mortem digital interaction</b>: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Paula Kiel, London School of Economics and Political Science </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>#RIPRobinWilliams - digital memorials as mediators of a ‘lived life’</b>: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://people.aalto.fi/index.html?profilepage=isfor#!anu_harju" target="_blank">Anu Harju</a>, Aalto University </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A digital archaeology: navigating the post-mortem</b>: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ariana Mouyiaris </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: center;">Her presentation caught me completely by surprise. I was unaware that group </span></span>online watchings of wakes of strangers existed. I couldn't help but wonder if watching reality shows is to blame for this phenomenon. I can't imagine a group gathering online to eat popcorn, watch the wake of a stranger and post comments and judgments about the ordeal - yet they do. They Tweet to let each other know when one is online and where to watch it and they make print screens to capture the experience for those who couldn't make it. Is it a fascination with death? Is it disrespectful for the deceased / the people who attend the wakw in person? If so, why is it open for live streaming / watching and not hidden behind a password for only the relatives and friends to see? Apparently it has evolved over time: at first there was only one camera, now there are several, including one just above the casket, showing the face of the deceased. I wouldn't watch it if you paid me to - but there are people that this is how they spend their Friday nights, glued to the screen, watching the wake of a stranger. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">This paper aims to show the main interactions </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">between users of a Brazilian Facebook group that </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">often use the viewing of Virtual Wakes of strangers </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">to discuss death and dying. The Virtual Wake is </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">the real-time streaming of the period of 12 to 24 </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">hours the family normally spends with the body </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">before burying or cremating it, and is an extremely </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">important part of the Brazilian death rituals, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">interpreted as the last chance to say goodbye to </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">a loved one. The Virtual Wake is now a thriving </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">business for the funerary companies and consists </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">in placing a camera in the rooms where the regular </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">wake happens. The online community, called “Dead </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">people profiles” is a space dedicated to listing </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">the profiles and causes of death of Facebook users, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">similar to an obituary, and today has more than </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">thirteen thousand members. Their points of view and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">In media debate the blogosphere, especially diary </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">blogs, is sometimes criticized for contributing </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">to the superficiality of society as the subjects </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">discussed in blogs tend to be rather trivial, such </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">as trends in fashion, food and home decoration. In </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">social media research Miller has argued that blogs </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">have shifted from providing substantive texts and </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">dialogue to ‘pathic exchange’ with the only purpose </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">to maintain connections. Blogs </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">have therefor become parts of a rising pathic media </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">culture characterized by individualization, ‘pure </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">relationships’ and commodification </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">of information and social relations. </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">This presentation however, will describe </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">blogs written by terminally ill persons and </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">discuss how these offer new opportunities for </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">communication about existential experiences as </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">well as opportunities for people to approach their </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">existential (in)security through </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">exchanging empathy in a networked society</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">. This ongoing research both draws on and </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">moves beyond Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">rationalization of death in modern society. It does </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">so by adding Lövheim’s theory of ‘empathic </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">communication’ – a communication between bloggers </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">and readers where the value and forms of empathy </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">and mutuality are collectively maintained and </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">transformed – balancing the pathic media culture </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">found and described elsewhere in Internet research </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">and at the same time providing insights into, what </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Seneca calls, the art of dying in the 2010s</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">". </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Throughout modernity, the social construction of </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">death was characterised by a tension: on the one </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">hand a desire to eliminate and remove death from </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">everyday life, while on the other, a continuous </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">and ever-lingering presence of the deceased in </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">daily life. In between these conflicting desires, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">communication technologies have repeatedly triggered </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">fantasies of dismantling boundaries between death </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">and everyday life. </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Most recently, digital platforms such as <a href="http://www./">www.</a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><a href="http://deadsoci.al/">deadsoci.al</a>, <a href="http://www.lifenaut.com/">www.lifenaut.com</a> and <a href="http://www.liveson.org/">www.liveson.org</a> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">open up new possibilities of post-mortem forms </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">of interaction that potentially allow an active </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">participation of the dead in users’ everyday lives </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">through digital media. For example, by allowing the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">dead to “send” emails, “post” on social networking </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">sites and even “engage” in conversations. In </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">so doing, these platforms arguably challenge </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">conceptions of death as stillness, and the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">association of the dead with silence and absence. </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">In this paper, a concept of controlled presence </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">is suggested for studying death in our current </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">moment and conceptualising its distinctive </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">characteristics. For this end, the paper examines </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">post-mortem interaction websites as a site in which </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">social meanings of death and the dead are formed, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">negotiated and modified in contemporary Western </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">cultures. Employing a multi-modal analysis of </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">websites dedicated to post-mortem interaction, this </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">study explores the characteristics of practices of </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">post-mortem digital interaction, and highlights the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">changing constructions of death from an excluded and </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">confined experience to one which can be potentially </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">embedded within everyday life. This paper argues </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">that practices of post-mortem digital interaction </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">are potentially reshaping the content, materiality </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">and temporality of contemporary practices of </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">controlling and managing the presence of death, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">deadness and the dead".</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://people.aalto.fi/index.html?profilepage=isfor#!anu_harju" target="_blank">Anu Harju</a>, Aalto University </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">School of Business, Helsinki, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Finland</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">We live in times of affect economy. Death brings us </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">together through mediated participation in online </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">mourning rituals where belonging </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">is achieved through emotional identification </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">with distant others. Mediated rituals have the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">capacity to evocate a sense of communal belonging</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">. Exploring social media as mediated </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">public space, the study focuses </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">on the meanings assigned to the lives of deceased </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">celebrities. Combining a social constructionist </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">approach </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">with systemic functional linguistics (SFL) </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">analysis</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">, this study examines how a ‘lived </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">life’ is (co)constructed in online memorising and </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">embedded in digital memorials. </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Actor Robin Williams died in August 2014, and </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Philip Seymour Hoffman in February the same year. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Celebrity death disrupts normality, peaking also </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">in social media. Perhaps due to the untimeliness </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">of most famous deaths, they remind people of “what </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">really matters”. This study looks at what kinds of </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">meanings are assigned to the lives lived and lost, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">how celebrities gain meaning in and by death as </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">these meanings are discursively and collectively </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">constructed in social media and anchored in digital </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">memorials. The study extends our understanding </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">on, first, how digital memorials come to mean, and </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">second, the role of online memorising in a sense </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">belonging. The empirical material consists of YouTube memorial videos as well as #RIPRobinWilliams and #RIPPhilipSeymourHoffman tweets. The results suggest meanings originate from the lives and needs of the mourning audience more than the actual lives of the celebrities, suggesting that digital memorials, while having a collective function, also harbour deeply personal meanings".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ariana was the most powerful experience for me this symposium, and I spent her entire talk wishing I could hug her - which I eventually did. Her brother, Alexis, died in November 2014, the symposium was held in August 2015, and even though everything is so fresh, so stood there and gave an amazing, eloquent talk. I was so mesmerized I didn't write notes during it, which I now regret. She shared what her family went through after his death, and how they had to "dig up" digital clues in order to get some much-needed answers. It was an intellectual presentation but for me it was an emotional one, which is why I remember more of how I felt during her talk and less of what she said. I very much hope to cross paths with her again.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">If to live and to die are abstract, existential </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">questions, the digital remnants and artifacts of </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">a life become increasingly present reminders and </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">spaces for the post-mortem exploration of loved ones </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">and friends. How is this new territory accessed, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">mediated, manipulated and, ultimately, understood? </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">In the wake of my brother’s premature death last </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">November, these issues along with a plethora </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">of legal, moral, bureaucratic obstacles arose. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Questions of access, passwords, privacy, public </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">memorializing, sociopathic manipulations of truth </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">and relationships became increasingly amplified and </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">exposed in the public domain. Usage of social media </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">platforms, in particular Instagram and Facebook, as </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">a means of reaching networks to inform and share </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">expressions of the deceased became primary tools </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">and sites for emotional and digital exchange. </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">In a society that seeks to keep death on the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">margins, uncomfortable with accepting and creating </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">rituals to integrate it more fully into the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">psychology of life, how can the digital allow for a </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">more considered, reflective and positive movement </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">towards catharsis and collective mourning: to create </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">an (in)tangible space for the digital afterlife? </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">This paper seeks to explore an increasingly relevant </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">domain in post-materialist studies and contemporary </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">mourning. Ultimately, what holds meaning and how </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">are memories constructed and reconstructed based </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">on shared digital repositories? How does one’s kin </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">preserve and archive the documents, correspondence, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">photographs and media (whether music via soundcloud </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">or email accounts) once notifying digital providers </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">of one’s death? </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">What are the services that should be offered to help </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">access and trace the activity in the run up to the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">loss? If there are unresolved details and questions </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">surrounding the death, what new services can </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">arise to help piece together the digital evidence </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">proceeding and surrounding trauma whether for </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">preliminary/pre-criminal investigation or personal </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">grieving? I will largely focus the paper on primary </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">evidence and experience and draw on wider academic </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">and intellectual writings, such as Derrida’s ‘The </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Work of Mourning’, Socrates and Epicurus".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Left to right: Paula, Andréia, Ariana, Anu, <span style="text-align: left;">Yvonne</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Artistic Presentation: </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/119734795" target="_blank"><b>Thieves and Swindlers are not allowed in paradise</b></a>:<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://jasminepalkovajohnson.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Jasmine Johnson</a></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Keynote lecture by </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/staff/wendymoncur/" target="_blank">Wendy Moncur</a>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">University of Dundee, Scotland </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I loved her talk. The first part of it was so similar to some of the talks I give I felt right at home: "Our digital selves are scattered all over the globe and ownership is unclear". I liked how she stated that "we use the world wide web, but legislation isn't world wide" and her suggestion that "We're dead once we are no longer searched for, or when we come up last in the search results" (Hope I'm not misquoting). I also liked her ideas about digital temporality: creating something digital which will lose pixels over time, like how printed pictures fade with time. She also spoke about digital decay, value in data and posthumous interactions.<br />The second part was where she took this knowledge to <b>make </b>something with it and out of it, which is a concept I appreciate and respect. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What you see in these pictures is a prototype which works only when held, which I love. It was made in collaboration with and for a grieving mother, Myra, in remembrance and commemoration of her son, Andrew. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are increasingly living out aspects of our lives digitally. But what happens when we die? In this keynote, I’ll explain what I mean by a ‘digital life’, comparing it with physical and social human lifespans. I’ll explore the reasons why it is so difficult to completely terminate your digital life, before describing the options for a continuing presence after physical death, both in the memories of others and as a rather more active, even vocal, digital entity". </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Panel session 4</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>:</b> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Digital afterlife and digital legacy</b></span></h4>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Remains in the System: recounting the lives of data in mourning</b>: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.digitaloss.net/" target="_blank">Selina Ellis Gray</a>, Lancaster University</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The Media End: The Digital Afterlife and the Ending of Social Media – Contours of our Digital Throwness</b>: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ims.su.se/forskning/forskningsomr%C3%A5den/journalistik-medier-och-kommunikation/amanda-lagerkvist-1.165083" target="_blank">Amanda Lagerkvist</a>, Stockholm University</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Erasure and the datafied self</b>: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ideacritik.com/" target="_blank">Audrey Samson</a>, City University of Hong Kong</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love her work and was delighted to get to see <a href="http://www.digitaloss.net/" target="_blank">some of it</a>. </span><br />
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"<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Remains in the System: Recounting the Lives of Data in Mourning</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What happens if we think about our digital legacies, not as a static collection of data that people abandon in death, but as a mass of remains that ‘live on’ within a range of digital networks? This question has underpinned my doctoral research and methodological approach, prompting the development of a PhD, which looks towards what ‘Remains in the System’. In this doctoral study I engaged in a multi-sited ethnography online in order to empirically follow the ‘lives’ of data across a three year period. These observations of data included a range of photographs, status updates, videos, poems, audio files, biographical accounts and so forth, from their early inception, through to their decay. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">In this presentation I want to recount core findings </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">from a chapter called: ‘When Loss Remains’, which </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">overviews a 25 year history of mourning online. The </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">work begins in 1990 and outlines the first known </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">example of death online, accounts of mourning and </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">the issue of data within a Virtual Community. I </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">will then discuss the early practices of loss that </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">transitioned onto the World Wide Web and developed </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">within the first free user generated sites in the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">mid 1990’s. Moving to reveal a multitude of sites </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">which are still active 18 years after they first </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">emerged. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Finally I discuss the transition of data from </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">these first user generated sites onto contemporary </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">social networks in order to give an insight into </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">the diversity of practices online. Accounting for </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">the lives of data amongst a historical frame of </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">mourning online, will not only bring a different </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">perspective to the issue of digital legacy, but </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">also, prompts us to think about the materiality of </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">data. How it can persist, become entangled or lost </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">in unexpected and surprising ways".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amanda's talk was fascinating as well. She discussed how some people wish to end social media presence, not to prolong it. Her mention of "Digital Data Funerals" was a great lead towards Audrey's talk next.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">"In reiterating the nitty-gritty of a classic article </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">in death studies by Tony Walter “Sociologists never </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">die”, one may propose that for media studies </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">proper, there is no proper end. Due to its limited </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">modernist and rational foundations, death itself </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">has only recently become focused in the field, and </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">remains marginal</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">For a certain strand of media studies ‘improper’ </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">on the other hand there is nothing but the end, as </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">it is preoccupied with posthuman fictionalizations </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">of a fossilized media future, and a memory of </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">our civilisation, after we have died out</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">. Suspending these alternatives, this paper </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">launches an existential approach and argues that </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">the digital has become a cultural form wherein we </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">face endings, death, as well as phenomena of ‘the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">digital afterlife.’ These entail our fundamental </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">thrownness \ through those defining </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">and eternal ‘limit-situations’ </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">that have assumed a partially different shape in </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">digital culture. Much attention has been paid to </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">online memorialization in the death online context</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">. A less discussed </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">countertendency is the prevailing need of closure </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">and ending of social media. In zooming in on two </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">contrasting cases: the market rhetoric of a digital </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">afterlife actant, and the invisible market strategy </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">of a company that offers the service to entirely end </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">the social media life of the dead, I will sketch out </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">the contours of our digital thrownness</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"> and how it, despite or because of our </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">posthuman condition, both demands our agency and </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">triggers a register of affective engagement. </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">This will result in a typology of the digital </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">afterlife, and in an outline of key features of </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">its structure of feeling, entailing 1) meaningful </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">memorialization and the quest for ‘existential </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">security’ 2) a spooky intermediary realm of reflex </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">bodily engagement and affect 3) </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">a space of temporal crisis of returnings and of </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">the enduring ephemeral and 4) a space </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">managerial reasoning 5) and finally </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">a case of re-enchantment at play, even in the most </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">unlikely of places – in the posthuman archive".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and "<a href="https://vimeo.com/111322066" target="_blank">ne.me.quitte(s).pas</a>" is fascinating and thought provoking. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">The following research is concerned with what kind </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">of role the materiality of Internet technologies </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">plays in post-mortem digital legacy (also called </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">digital death), and how digital data bleeds into </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">our mourning practices. It explores these questions </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">by examining how Facebook and Google deal with </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">digital death, and what kind of consequences the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">materiality of the network entails. The notions </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">of materiality are understood here as a space </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">of interaction between code and hardware </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">and perceived materialisation of phenomena </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">iteratively configured by dynamics of ‘intraactions’</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">. In the examples considered </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">I look at how terms of conditions apply to memory </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">in the form of externalised tertiary retention in </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">the process of “grammatization”. </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">I also consider how the technical infrastructure </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">and code of these frameworks contribute to what </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Wendy Chun’s calls “undead media”, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">and therefore how the persistence of media affects </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">how we remember. The research also looks at the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">biological human memory’s materiality and its need </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">to forget . Ultimately I propose </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">digital data funerals as an artistic strategy to </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">make data tangible and to explore how these layers </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">of stockpiled data constantly re-configure our </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">identities. Digital data funerals offer a symbolic </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">gesture that draws attention to the materiality of </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">data through tangible and physical degradation, in </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">an attempt to surpass post-mortem datafication, and </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">surveillance".</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">The next Death Online Research Symposium, DORS3, shall take place in <b>Denmark </b>in <b>October 2016</b>. Thank you </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Dorthe Refslund Christensen from </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Aarhus</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"> for taking it upon yourself to organize it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wish to take this opportunity to again thank </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Korina Giaxoglou and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stacey Pitsillides for taking it upon themselves to organize this symposium and to thank them and everyone who presented and attended for making it such an interesting and successful one. </span></div>
ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-87447497488287822172015-12-28T17:39:00.001+02:002018-03-01T14:29:17.256+02:00My Summary of "Death Online Research Symposium", August 2015, London, UK - Day 1<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The second <b>Death Online Research Symposium</b> <i>(website temporarily down for maintenance)</i> was held in August 2015 at Kingston University, London. You are welcome to follow it on social networks via #DORS2. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are welcome to read my summary of the first Death Online Research Symposium: <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2014/11/my-summary-of-death-online-research.html" target="_blank">Day One</a>, <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2014/12/my-summary-of-death-online-research.html" target="_blank">Day Two</a> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and/or f</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ollow it on social networks via #DORS. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was held in Durham, UK in April 2014. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The early arrivals met on August 16th for a little get-together supper before the symposium commenced. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were greeted by <a href="http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/faculty/staff/cv.php?staffnum=589" target="_blank">Korina Giaxoglou</a>, Kingston University and <a href="http://www.digitaldeath.eu/" target="_blank">Stacey Pitsillides</a>, Goldsmiths University of London, who co-organized the symposium. I wish to take this opportunity to thank them both for all the hard work they've put into making it successfully happen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>"Heterotopic Relations Between Media and Materiality in Children's Online Memorials and on Children's Graves" </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(with </span><a href="http://mcc.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/269353" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Kjetil Sandvik</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">University of Copenhagen, Denmark)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"In this paper we analyze how bereaved parents make use of various media-strategies on online memorial sites and on children’s graves when performing processes of grief and commemoration for their stillborns and infants, and how these processes are not just linked to one particular media but take place across media. We show how the death of an infant can lead to mediation, remediation and mediatization strategies which involves both the uses and arrangement of objects on memorial pages and on children’s graves as well as uses of new social technologies, that produce, negotiate and develop social relations, belonging and coherence that are both individual and relational and that are made possible by ritually establishing online memorials and graves as heterotopic interfaces that opens certain communicational flows and accesses specific communicative spaces concerning most prominently the ongoing relations with the dead child and the (re)negotiation of parenthood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We understand media as a function of an object reflected in human practices and embedded and structured by the different materialities they are intertwined with. We argue that the use of media and materiality online and on the graves are, in various ways, a remediation of everyday parental practices and we demonstrate how such practices and relations are structured in some basic social matrices of how to perform parenthood, both in relation to the dead child and in relation to achieving social appreciation of the missing child and the role as being parents even when the child has died".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Panel Chair: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">Stacey Pitsillides, University of Greenwich</span></div>
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<li><b>Online Emotion Regulation: Why the kind of loss does (not) matter in coping in online bereavement</b>: <a href="http://www.katrindoeveling.de/" target="_blank">Katrin Döveling</a>, University of Leipzig </li>
<li><b>Built and received identities in virtual memorials</b>: <a href="http://annahaverinen.com/" target="_blank">Anna Haverinen</a>, University of Turku </li>
<li><b>Bereaved parents’ online grief communities: de-tabooing practices of grief-ghettos</b>: <a href="http://ait.gu.se/kontaktaoss/personal/ylva_hard_af_segerstad" target="_blank">Ylva Hard af Segerstad</a> and <a href="http://letstudio.gu.se/members/dick-kasperowski" target="_blank">Dick Kasperowski</a>, Gothenburg University, <a href="http://mcc.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/269353" target="_blank">Kjetil Sandvik</a>, University of Copenhagen and<a href="http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/nordrc@hum.au.dk" target="_blank"> Dorthe Refslund Christensen</a>, Aarhus University</li>
<li><b>‘We do it to keep him alive’: The use of Facebook in the aftermath of a suicide</b>: <a href="http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/socsci/staff/academic-staff/bell_j.aspx" target="_blank">Jo Bell</a> and <a href="http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/centre-for-end-of-life-studies/members/louis-bailey.aspx" target="_blank">Louis Bailey</a>, University of Hull</li>
<li><b>Mourning in bits and stone: understanding the materiality, spatiality and temporality of digitally augmented memorial sites</b>: <a href="http://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/jakob-borrits-sabra(007948fc-f8dd-43b3-8859-76061a1a5d98).html" target="_blank">Jakob Sabra</a> and H.J. Andersen, Aalborg University</li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.katrindoeveling.de/" target="_blank">Katrin Döveling</a>, University of Leipzig </b></span></div>
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In today’s digitalized global village, online communication garnishes a vast amount of information, opinions and attitudes, at the same time yielding considerable potential for emotional (ex)change. Online bereavement platforms provide opportunities for emotional communication within a group of like-minded, yet anonymous grievers.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The domain of online-bereavement still leaves many questions unanswered. Not only young adolescent mourners, who are familiar with the many options social network sites offer, use the internet to share their emotions, but in a digital era, all age groups can be part of virtual interaction processes. </span></div>
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<li>Does online grief depend on the kind of loss? Does this type of loss (bereaved parents grieving over the loss of their child; bereaved children suffering the loss of a parent; widows grieving over losing a spouse) engender different forms of emotion regulation processes?</li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I admit I never thought about it like this before. She also spoke about wording, phrasing and terminology: when you say "I'm an orphan" or "I'm a widow/er", your relationship and status with the deceased is clear. <span style="text-align: center;"> But with a deceased sibling, you have to say "I'm a bereaved sister/brother" - you can't say it all in one word. And what happens if there were just the two of you? You are a sister/brother, but you have no sibling to be a sister/brother to. I never thought about this before, I admit. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The action of creating an online memorial is a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ritualized act of remembering and honoring, which </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">consists of symbolism concerning the relationship </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">between the deceased and the bereaved – as well as </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">their community and other extended social networks.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is particular about official memorial </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">websites – compared to other online memorials – </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is their constructed nature, where they resemble </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">traditional burial sites the most. The websites </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">do not only reflect the social relation between </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the deceased and the creator of the memorial, but </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">also the relationship between the individual and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">society. Since all memorials are always subjective </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">constructions of identities, highlighting specific </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">aspects of their personalities, gender and social </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and cultural status, the memorials can often even </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">be almost like caricatures highlighting only one </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or a few aspects of the individual. Through their </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">constructed nature, they are also representations </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of culture, ideology and religion and reflect </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a specific time in history. They become social </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">narratives of a socially contextualized individual</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. In this presentation I will discuss </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the notions of built and received identities when </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">creating a memorial website. Identity as a concept </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is used in this presentation as something a person </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is or wishes to be in the eyes of others</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, but also, in this case, how the deceased is </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">perceived by others through the memorial website.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I will use two case examples from my PhD work</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, conducted in 2007-2014, where </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I analyzed the way memorial websites portray the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">identity and the life of the deceased, the way </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the memorial creator perceived the identity of the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">deceased, how the personal taste of the bereaved is </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">displayed on the memorial visually and, finally, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the options the website providers provide to the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">users in customization and personal layouts. The </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">memorial websites were analyzed using narrative </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">identity theory</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, where the focus is on the life narratives of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the bereaved and the deceased".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The death of a child is a near taboo subject in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">most contemporary societies. This limits bereaved </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">parents’ means for coping with their loss. However, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with the introduction of social media, this has </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">changed. In this paper, we present preliminary </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">results from case studies of a number of different </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">types of Danish and Swedish online grief communities </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for bereaved parents. The main differences between </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">these communities are related to the conditions </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for participation and sharing: open or closed, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">moderated or non-moderated communities. The main </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">questions focus on how development of practices and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">norms for grieving and mourning online are related </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to the particular conditions for participation. The </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">different types of grief communities under study </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are a closed and an open group on Facebook, an </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">open dedicated memorial website and open discussion </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">groups such as Libero/Pampers etc. We aim at </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">analyzing which kinds of practices are performed and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">shared in the different forums and how norms and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">traditions are performed, challenged and negotiated </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the various formats. Furthermore, we discuss how </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">these practices are related to dominant ideas of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">grief in society as such, for instance, in relation </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to intensity, length etc. Do these practices lead </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to a softening of prejudices against mourners, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i.e. de-tabooing the loss of a child, or do they </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lead to new biases and misconceptions as displayed </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in popular media, casting them as grief-ghettos?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Facebook is a place to share and connect with family </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and friends online. Increasingly, for many it is </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">also a place to remember and honour the deceased, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">including those who have died by suicide. When </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a person passes away, their Facebook account can </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">become a memorial and digital legacy of their life, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">experiences, personality and friendships. This </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">paper presents findings from recent qualitative </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">research in the UK which focuses on the online </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">memorialisation of those who have died by suicide. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It draws on data from ten individuals who have </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">experience of creating and maintaining Facebook </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sites dedicated to the memory of loved ones – a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">child, a sibling or a friend - who have died by </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">suicide. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Data indicated that Facebook enables the deceased </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to be an on-going active presence in the lives of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the bereaved, with many examples of participants </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">saying that they continue to communicate with the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">deceased via their Facebook accounts as if they </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">were still alive. Our presentation explores the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">various ways in which Facebook has been used in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">aftermath of a suicide and highlights the frequency </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of communication, what sentiments are expressed and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">how activity changes over time. In this paper we </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">discuss the potential of Facebook as an avenue for </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">digital afterlife and the generation of post-mortem </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">identity. We look at the ways in which Facebook </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">transforms human mortality providing new ways for </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">people to experience, negotiate and represent death </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by suicide and stay connected to the deceased"</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We mourn our dead, publicly and privately, online and offline. Cemeteries, web memorials and social network sites make up parts of todays intricately weaved and interrelated network of death, grief and memorialization practices. Whether cut in stone or made of bits, graves, cemeteries, memorials, monuments, websites and social networking services (SNS) all are alterable, controllable and adaptive. They represent a certain rationale contrary to the emotive state of mourning (e.g. gravesites function as both spaces of internment and places of spiritual and emotional recollection). Following this theoretical offset the study proposes an alternative and nuanced discourse on the interplay of novel media technologies in relation to their perceived impact on materiality / rationality and incorporeal / emotional states in mourning and remembrance processes. We argue that novel media technologies bridge the divide between ‘states of rationale’ and ‘states of sentiment’ and augment the loop of exchanges between the two. We switch interdependently between these states by a seemingly coincidental structure, when subjected to involuntary memories or episodic reminders afforded by trigger parameters such as space, artifacts, situations or sensuous representations. In this paper we build upon present research on grief and proposal a methodological contribution to the study of progressions of digital mourning and remembrance practices. We present a generalized structure of online mourning and memorialization by discussing the publicly and privately digital and social death from a spatial, temporal, physical and digital angle. Further, the paper will reflect on how to encompass shifting trends and technologies in ‘traditional’ spaces of mourning and remembrance".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; line-height: 18.2px;">"<b>The Living Dead? The Augmentation of Graveyards, Memorials and Monuments</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This research examines the potential of Augmented </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reality (AR) applications to enhance the experience </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of visitors to cemeteries and other memorials. AR </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">allows users to overlay an augmented reality image </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">onto a physical object when viewed through a mobile </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">phone. AR applications, unlike some other </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">approaches, do not require any physical additions </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to existing physical artefacts and the technology </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">permits a multiplicity of interactions, for </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">instance a family member might view one image and a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">member of the general public might view another. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The technology can be applied to both family </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">headstones and historic monuments or markers of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">interest such as war memorials and the <a href="http://www.englishheritage.%20org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/" target="_blank">English </a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.englishheritage.%20org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/" target="_blank">Heritage Blue Plaques scheme</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. The author </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">has successfully used augmented reality in site </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with both family headstones and war memorials. The </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">author began to investigate AR following the death </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of his own parents at separate times in 2009. The </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">modest cremation headstone seemed insufficient (but </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was all that was permitted) so the idea of using </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">an AR application to allow family members to see </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">without having to physically change the headstone </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was compelling. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This presentation would build upon a presentation </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at the first Death Online Research Symposium </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNfYaAPYjoI&feature=youtu.be&t=1m38s" target="_blank">see clip from that event</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). The session would include </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(new) live demonstrations of AR in action. Since </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the first symposium the author has developed strong </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ties between the technology and the sociology </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of death and remembrance, including sociological </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">concepts of aura</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, pluralisation of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the function of monuments </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and contested spaces"</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />The traditions and rituals around a physical death are changing due to the ubiquitous state of digital communication technology. The dying as well as the relatives hold a number of new choices regarding the rituals connected to the remaining life, the funeral, the legacy, and the process of mourning the loss. This project is primarily related to the latter and centers around a business initiative to construct a new Danish memorial platform. Currently, there are few options of Danish memorial platforms for the descendants to choose between. There is an early web solution for memorials in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">general (</span><a href="http://mindet.dk/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">mindet.dk</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, with about 1600 active memorials) and a small score of more specialized sites for the loss of for example infants or siblings. As Haverinen points out, the differences in national mourning cultures make the big US based memorial platforms unsettling places for other nationalities; from the symbol design to the default language it is unfamiliar territory. The actions and rituals connected to death and mourning are embedded in longheld national traditions, religious and otherwise, and the design of a digital memorial platform is thus a challenge also in relation to cultural knowledge and sensitive design. The platform and the connected research are works in progress, and the research design span three perspectives: 1) users and experiences, 2) techoethical issues, and 3) changes in ritual practices. This way, the research project will cover the micro level (the new memorial’s test pilots and first movers), the meso level (practical and theoretical challenges posed by the intersection between digital technology, traditions, and sensitive issues) and the macro level (the digital transformation of national death culture). My presentation at the second symposium will give a status on the actual platform development, share experiences about the construction of the research project, and explore possibilities for transcending the national perspective".</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">graduations and weddings. While a person can predict </span></span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">where and when these future events will take place </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">with relative certainty, he cannot guarantee that </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">he himself will have the chance to attend. </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">The digital inheritance market is fragmented. With </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">so much of our lives being lived online, digital </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">inheritance has become a complex issue, especially </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">since the average person has multiple on-line </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">accounts. Once a person passes away, various hurdles </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">arise, including those with respect to privacy and </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">intellectual property rights regarding the person’s </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">on-line data.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">SafeBeyond simplifies the complexity, process and </span></span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">management of digital media inheritance and virtual </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">legacy for data heirs. SafeBeyond provides a unique </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">and user friendly platform for the management and </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">distribution of a user’s digital data and virtual </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">legacy after he passes away. With SafeBeyond, </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">a user can guarantee that his words of wisdom, </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">encouragement, and love will fill the void left </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">by his absence at the moments and places they are </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">needed most. The platform aims to empower multiple </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">beneficiaries, not only the user by preserving and </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">delivering the user’s messages with pre-selected </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">recipients at the time or place of future life </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">events. This ensures the user’s virtual legacy </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">and presence long after his passing. Importantly, </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">the platform enables the user to predetermine what </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">will happen to his digital data, and how his online </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">foot print will be handled by his loved ones. </span></span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">By designating online account custodians, the user </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">ensures the preservation of the sentimental value </span></span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">of his digital data and virtual legacy".</span></span><br />
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At the beginning of the session I presented what I see as the "Digital Death Problem", what existing solutions I'm familiar with and what solutions I came up with which do not yet exist, to the best of my knowledge. I asked the participants to share what existing solutions they are familiar with which I haven't yet mentioned, and what other solutions do they come up with.<br />
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It was an emotional experience for me as August 17th was my late brother's 60th birthday.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2013 an online survey titled “What Shall We Leave Behind?” was held, regarding the digital legacy we and our loved ones shall leave behind. Some of its results were presented in a paper titled “<a href="https://thanatosjournal.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/shavit_-tzezana_cleargap1.pdf" target="_blank">Online Legacies: Online Service Providers and the Public – a Clear Gap</a>“. The paper focused on the current gap as portrayed through the results of this survey between the wishes of families of modern deceased to gain access to their beloved ones’ online legacy posthumously and the websites, platforms and online service providers’ </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">policies and practices in this regard.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The unique opportunity of DORS 2015: Death Online researchers and experts of various disciplines gathered together at the same time and place could be used for sharing ideas and knowledge. A brainstorming regarding "What more can be done?" - practically and in all sectors: business, governmental, private, non-profit: raising awareness, finding solutions, creating a change".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The summary of the second day can be found <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2015/12/my-summary-of-death-online-research_29.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of the pictures at the roundtable session were taken by Andréia Martins. I'm afraid I don't know which ones where taken by her and which by me. Sorry for the general credit rather than a specific one, Andréia, and thank you for taking them!</span></div>
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ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-72903604344328215052015-12-19T17:45:00.000+02:002015-12-19T17:45:16.505+02:00When It Comes To Facebook, Our Wishes Are Irrelevant <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I saw this post in the profile of a woman from Jerusalem after she committed suicide last month, my heart ached: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Following May's wishes, this page shall remain active in its current condition and not as a Facebook memorialization page".</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You see, the thing is that Facebook doesn't care what her wishes were. The social network doesn't care if May gave her username and password intentionally and willingly, wishing that her dearest friends whom she trusts would keep updating it and that it would remain active (it's a profile, not a page). Facebook allows anyone to report anyone as deceased, and as soon as that report is processed, the profile is memorialised - even if the deceased explicitly wished otherwise. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is indeed what happened with May's profile, and very quickly: someone who did not respect her wishes reported her to Facebook as deceased, and her profile was memorialised. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May knew she was about to die, she knew what she wished to happen to her profile after her death - but to Facebook, her wishes are irrelevant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jeff.mcmanamy.5" target="_blank">Jeff McManamy</a> from Wisconsin, USA, Heather's husband, posted from within his wife's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/heather.mcmanamy" target="_blank">profile</a> after her death from cancer, according to her wishes and following her instructions, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/heather.mcmanamy/posts/10153176115305951" target="_blank">beautiful, charming, funny, sad and moving obituary</a> she composed to and about herself. It starts with the words: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is, apparently, I'm dead. The good news is that if you're reading this, you are most definitely not (unless they have wifi in the afterlife)".</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A highly recommended <a href="https://www.facebook.com/heather.mcmanamy/posts/10153176115305951" target="_blank">read</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heather knew she was dying and left Jeff this text along with the way of accessing her profile. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My heart aches again when I see what Jeff posted two days later: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"I have decided to keep this page going as a memorial for Heather. Not only will there be updates on the book, but I'll continue to post pictures and fun tidbits about Bri's life that Heather always enjoyed sharing"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bri is Briana, Jeff and Heather's daughter. She'll turn five years old next April. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The book is the book Heather wrote in the final six weeks of her life. It will be published in April: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cards-Brianna-Lifetime-Lessons-Daughter/dp/1492642134/" target="_blank">Cards for Brianna: A Lifetime of Lessons and Love from a Dying Mother to Her Daughter</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Jeff's decision? His wish to continue posting pictures and updates from within his wife's profile (this too is a profile and not a page), and thus to reach her followers (thousands) and friends (hundreds)? Well, Facebook is not going to care about that. Neither is Facebook going to care about the fact that Heather knew she was dying and gave her husband her username and password intentionally. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm following her profile with dread, wondering each time I visit if this will be the time when it'll already be memorialised. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2012 Louise Palmer from England found herself locked out of her only child's Facebook profile, Becky, who died from a brain tumor when she was 19 years old in December 2010. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2110019/Facebook-banned-dead-daughters-page-Mothers-anguish-locked-brain-tumour-teenagers-site-web-giant.html" target="_blank">Louise</a>: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Towards the end of her life she couldn't write or read more than a few sentences so I used to log in for her and read out to her what her friends were up to".</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Since her death in December I continued to login to remove spam comments from the page. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'I also gained a lot of comfort from reading all her old messages and conversations with friends before she got ill. When I was feeling desperately low, just logging into her page made me feel so much better. I could hear her voice through those conversations and remember how bubbly Becky was when she was alive. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'At the same time I would sometimes change her profile photo and remove any spam that had been posted on her wall to keep her page tidy'". </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People who use Facebook's <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2015/02/facebook-changes-their-posthumous.html" target="_blank">Legacy Contact</a>, please remember that it's <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2015/10/why-am-i-saying-facebooks-legacy.html" target="_blank">not a good enough solution</a>. And people who think that leaving instructions behind along with their explicit wishes, their username and their password - please bear in mind that it won't suffice. Facebook doens't care what your wishes or decisions are. Your profile shall be memorialised as soon as it's reported. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jeff: I wish for you to have enough time to do whatever you wish to do - or whatever Heather wished for you to do - from within her profile before it gets memorialised, becuae as viral as this story gets, the chances are that this will happen and soon are only growing, I'm afraid. </span></div>
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ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-27921754472768187142015-11-24T01:56:00.000+02:002015-11-24T01:56:04.578+02:00An International Design Competition and a Symposium in the UK<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A new international <b>Death and Design</b> competition has been launched, titled: "<b>Future Cemetery Design Competition 2016</b>", all the details can be found <a href="http://futurecemetery.org/" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">here</a>.<b> </b>"Award is 5000 GBP and a part-time residency at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol. Submit your proposals by January 8th 2015. Register for an application pack before December 5th 2015".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The previous design competition I know about had some very interesting admissions and I'm very much looking forward to seeing what shall this competition bring forth. You're welcome to see some examples from the previous competition, titled "<b>Design For Death</b>" held in 2013, in this post of mine: <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2015/10/when-death-commemoration-technology-and.html" target="_blank">When Death, Commemoration, Technology and Design Get Together</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The Futures of Digital Death Symposium</b> will be held in Lancaster in January 2016. All the details can be found <a href="http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/futures-of-the-end-of-life/" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"<b>Futures of the End of Life: Mobilities of Loss and Commemoration in the Digital Economy</b>: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We invite contributions that bring analytical, critical, practice-based and creative insights to the use, design and development of technologies entangled at the end of life. Theoretical, empirical, practical and design or art-based research and approaches are welcome. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Submission Deadline: 14th December 2015</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">". </span><br />
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ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169284375814581650.post-58942505862800720212015-11-22T15:37:00.001+02:002017-03-26T18:39:55.066+03:00Welcome to the Israeli ‘Digital Death’ Scene<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the past year I’ve become aware of many active projects in Israel – at least 20 sites and applications – related to the various aspects of Digital Death. Most of these projects were the result of a personal experience. When I contacted them I was surprised to find that most had not heard of each other. They were unaware that their innovative initiative was part of a larger, up-and-coming social and technological field that has yet to be acknowledged.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am therefore happy to be the first to present you – and them – with the local scene in this field. This is my own initiative <a href="http://www.geektime.com/2015/11/22/10-digital-death-startups-that-could-help-with-the-loss-of-a-loved-one/" target="_blank"><b>in</b> <b>collaboration with Geektime</b></a>: I conducted a wide-spread review of the Israeli projects, of which ten are presented below. Four additional sites are in the process of reorganization and preferred not to take part:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.spotondeath.com/">www.spotondeath.com</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sympathy4u.com/">www.sympathy4u.com</a> } belonging to<b> Aley Shalechet</b> funeral home</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.memorialine.com/">www.memorialine.com</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://dorot.memorialine.com/">http://dorot.memorialine.com</a> } owned by <b>Yossi Polak</b>, managed by <b>Orit Abelson</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Additionally, three people are working on another three sites in this field that have yet to go live, one of which stemmed from the death of the entrepreneur’s mother. They too were almost completely unfamiliar with the Israeli sites that exist in the field.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Three other sites chose not to respond to my offer to take part in the review:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Yoram Kraus</b>’ <a href="http://infibond.com/">Infibond.com</a> – this is a social network focused on remembrance and commemoration. Or at least, as far as I know this is what it was meant to be. Currently it seems to focus more on the living than the dead;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Inbal Baumer</b>’s <a href="http://legalup.me/">legalup.me</a> – she wanted the site to include the issue of digital wills. I don’t know if this was actually implemented;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Yonatan Yisrael</b>’s <a href="http://olamim.co.il/">olamim.co.il</a> – a platform for creating memorial sites.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I haven’t even included the <a href="http://www.avelim.co.il/" target="_blank">Avelim</a> site (offering digital obituaries) or companies that offer QR bar-codes on gravestones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’m curious to see the future initiatives that will appear in this field, in the world in general and in Israel in particular. Are you aware of additional, relevant projects? I’d love to hear about them! death.in.digital.era@gmail.com </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ifidie</b> (mentioned below) ceased operations at the beginning of 2016. </span></li>
<li><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Docady</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (mentioned below) went offline in July 2016.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://memontage.com/" target="_blank">Memontage</a> </b>went online in September 2016, by Tovit Nizer and Noa Zehavi Raz. </span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://vivala.me/" target="_blank">vivala.me</a> </b>went online in March 2017, by <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span>Itay Barak, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Avraham Barak, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tal Valariola and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Grzegorz Stefaniak</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.capsool.com/"><b>www.capsool.com</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Launch:</b> 2013</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Founders:</b> Ayelet Hirshfeld and Mickey Bergman, childhood friends. Management is in the US, R&D in Israel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Finances:</b> Privately owned and funded. The first round of fundraising will begin soon. Subscription business model.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Target audience</b>: Private people and businesses who will offer the service as part of their service package.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Listed users:</b> some 500.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a service that allows users to determine ahead of time which actions will be carried out in their online accounts after their death. These can range from money transfers and cancelling subscriptions to sending pre-composed messages and transferring account control to someone else. Capsoole is the result of brain-storming among its founders regarding the affect death has on a person’s loved ones and their digital heritage. The founders became involved in this topic following unfortunate experiences and challenges that Mickey went through after a tragic death in the family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>How does your service assist in managing digital footprints?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ayelet Hirshfeld: “Today the only available solution is to trust a 3rd party (e.g., family, friend or trusted lawyer) with this information so they might implement the person’s will in the event they become incapacitated. This solution has limitations, such as the need to update a third party every time a password is changed. This is especially important for financial institutions because when a person becomes incapacitated, or during the first 30 days after they die, their assets are vulnerable to fraud. Our solution will instantly alert the financial institution of the customers’ situation, thus allowing them to proactively prevent fraud during this sensitive time. Without Capsoole’s solution, it would take at least two months to alert the financial institution to the customer’s situation”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What differentiates this project from other projects in this field?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mickey Bergman: “We are the only company that, in case of an emergency, allows automatic implementation of one’s pre-determined action plan without sharing sensitive information with others or placing an additional burden on loved ones. Our delayed execution solution solves the technical and legal barriers of transferring full ownership of a digital existence to someone else. We are also the only service that allows automatic notification of an individuals’ incapacitation during an emergency”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What are your future goals?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“We would like to see our solution duplicated across a variety of fields, from finance to social media, health, travel, companies’ institutional knowledge, etc”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“We believe that individuals are entitled to fully own their digital existence and we would love for Capsoole to provide people with the tools to do so. This path is long and steep. It requires a legal framework (currently digital-account providers claim ownership of individuals’ content) and the technical capacity to exercise such rights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We offer services to financial institutions such as "Protect My PayPal”, which sends instant notification to PayPal in case of emergency to protect individual accounts from fraud. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As our assets increasingly assume digital form (books, music, pictures, documents etc.) people are realizing more and more that they would like to do something with those assets. While social media is taking control over how we communicate with people, we understand that this too is our legacy”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.docady.com/"><b><u><strike>www.docady.com</strike></u></b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><strike><b>Launch:</b> 2015</strike></u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><strike><b>Founders:</b> Nadav Naaman and Nadav Weizman. The company works out of Tel Aviv.</strike></u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><strike><b>Finances:</b> In August 2015 the company raised $1.5 million in seed funding from the Pitango Ventures Capital Fund and other investors.</strike></u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><strike><b>Target audience:</b> Currently the focus is on US citizens but the service is open to everyone.</strike></u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><strike><b>Listed users:</b> Just launched.</strike></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strike>This application not only enables photographing and digitizing important documents so they are easily accessible, but also sharing them and receiving alerts and notifications regarding them. </strike></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What differentiates this project from other projects in this field?</b></span></strike><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strike>Nadav Naaman: “We provide easy and secure access to all important documents, both those scanned through the smartphone and those stored online. The application also uses an innovative picture-processing application to understand the significance of each document and what it ‘needs’. That way we are able to update the user regarding expiration dates and upcoming deadlines”.</strike></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>How is this related to Death in the Digital Age?</b></span></strike><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strike>“We are used to thinking that paperwork is relevant only so long as we are alive, but many documents continue to be an important part of our loved ones lives even after we die. Our goal is to prevent situations in which people are left without a clue regarding how to cope with digital life after the death of their loved ones. My father would ask me, “When are we going to go over my affairs so you’ll know what’s what and where everything is? You know I won’t live forever…” The idea of sitting with him and going over things was really depressing and I know many would rather avoid such a conversation. Docady creates an easy way to manage these exact things. My dad now manages his documents easily and simply on Docady, and has provided me with access to the stuff I need”.</strike></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What are your future goals?</b></span></strike><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strike>“We would like to form strategic partnerships with a multitude of services – government, financial, insurance or legal – that can help streamline the bureaucratic process for our users”.</strike></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strike>“The tragic loss of a friend much too young meant my group of friends and I had to spend weeks going through paperwork in order to help his widow deal with all the important documents she now had to manage. Obviously my friend never expected that he would die young and leave his wife in such a difficult position, but that’s exactly the point – you never do expect the worst to happen. We founded Docady to serve as a solution that would help make it easier for people to prepare for life’s unexpected moments.</strike></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are rarely by your computer or filing cabinet when you desperately need a document, and trawling through Dropbox or Gmail to find a digital copy is time consuming. We solve that problem, making it easy to access your important documents whenever you might need them by bringing them all together in one user-friendly place. We have a built-in camera scanner, but we also offer a completely unique feature: collecting any potentially important documents from existing online storage accounts or email services, and then allowing users to swipe through them to store any relevant docs in the app. This makes it easy for you to instantly find the document you need whenever you need it. </span></strike><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It’s tough to keep on top of your important documents and to deal with renewals or updates. Our app leverages cutting-edge image processing to extract important information from digitized documents and understand what they actually mean. Documents are more than just a slip of paper or a digital image – they have a life of their own and often require certain actions to be performed. By understanding what your documents mean and what they ‘need’ we are able to notify our users of upcoming deadlines and expiration dates in plenty of time, allowing them to take care of things without pressure. </span></strike><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We also make it easy to share documents across family members, spouses, or even lawyers and accountants.</span></strike><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Preparedness is at the center of what Docady is about. We’re trying to encourage users – and make it easy on them – to think about things in advance and make sure that if the worst should happen, they are as prepared and as organized as possible.</span></strike><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of our greatest breakthroughs was the understanding that while we’re definitely solving a personal problem for each individual user, the value and importance of our solution multiplies when it comes to families. While many people struggle to get a handle on organizing their own personal documents, this struggle becomes infinitely harder (and in some ways, more important), when you have to manage the paperwork and bureaucracy for an entire family”.</span></strike><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">E-Z-Safe </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTSXcNMhyphenhyphenCGx2Y2QNDvkPyf3IWLsPuew7fdifM1-bWKmKmLZPii4IDtKeGOufwZ_SZwZb7QYn8dkixnomj4bcrfMv3lf6XL68gPT9CRyxV_ksMtzWFJGPXq3koEABiXNs7Ku2oyYM28Eu_/s1600/E-Z-Safe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="72" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTSXcNMhyphenhyphenCGx2Y2QNDvkPyf3IWLsPuew7fdifM1-bWKmKmLZPii4IDtKeGOufwZ_SZwZb7QYn8dkixnomj4bcrfMv3lf6XL68gPT9CRyxV_ksMtzWFJGPXq3koEABiXNs7Ku2oyYM28Eu_/s200/E-Z-Safe.jpg" width="200" /></a></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.e-z-safe.com/">www.e-z-safe.com</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Launch</b>: 2011</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Founders:</b> Alon Nativ and Roni Nimri (Aley Shalechet). Offices in Ra'anana.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Finances</b>: Independently funded.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Target audience:</b> General public.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Listed users:</b> Undisclosed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Virtual safe: secure backup service to save important documents and allow sending them onwards after death to beneficiaries selected by the user. E-Z-Safe was created following the colleagues’ need for access to passwords following a death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What differentiates this project?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gil Arbel, VP: “I don’t think there is a difference other than the local difference of Hebrew. The whole micro-cosmos of this niche offers pretty much the same things; some do so better than others. The field of digital safes has been comparatively frozen since Google brought in the Death Switch model [the possibility of <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/2013/05/googles-new-solution-inactive-account.html" target="_blank">managing an inactive account</a> – V.S.] as part of its basic account definitions”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>So why is E-Z-safe necessary?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“A regulatory system has yet to be built to regulate the issue of digital death and the relationship between the user and the various internet platforms. Profit-driven companies do not necessarily represent all of the users’ interests or heritage. A digital safe removes the fear of losing control of your assets after death”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><strike><b>Founders:</b> Erez Eshel, Michal Porat, Eran Alfonta. Offices in Ramat Gan.</strike></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><strike><b>Target audience:</b> The general public, focusing on English and Portuguese speakers in North, South and Central America.</strike></u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><strike><b>Listed users:</b> Hundreds of thousands. Exact numbers were undisclosed.</strike></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strike>Eran Alfonta: “When we launched the app it was considered ground breaking – until then there had been no real solutions in the field of digital wills. The major advantage is the complete accessibility we offer a person in order to build his digital heritage: you can add, edit or change the recording at any time and so create a long-term digital heritage”.</strike></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strike>“We chose the social aspect, therefore the Facebook application. We decided to take a light, humoristic approach and that’s why our campaigns and videos address death in a natural, light-hearted way without being apologetic or hesitant”.</strike></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strike>“Social changes that involve existential heritage in which a person is responsible for his or her own destiny and heritage, designing it throughout their lives”.</strike></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Launch:</b> 2014 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Founders:</b> Shlomo Silverstone, Eliezer Cohen and Debra Eisenberg. Management in Jerusalem, marketing in the US.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Finances:</b> Following the self-funding stage, the company raised investments from an ‘angel’ investor. Subscription business model.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Target audience:</b> Funeral homes and retirement homes, mainly in the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">LifeVU offers funeral homes a package that includes building profiles for their clients and using them throughout the funeral service. Friends and family are invited to post stories, condolences and pictures to the profile from any mobile gadget. This enables real-time construction of the slideshow they are viewing during the funeral. Every profile is given a link to a feature in the system that collates all profile activity to an updating presentation that the funeral home broadcasts on screens / projectors in real-time. As it is online, the family and the bereaved can “take” the profile and later on screen it at home, in a family ritual and so on, and it can also serve as an updated digital album.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shlomo Silverstone: “The service provides solutions for the inability of social networks to cope with personal relationships among people after the death of a loved one. Another solution is regarding the market: funeral home directors see the long-term abandonment of this generation and the financial loss that entails. The belief is that by including innovative digital elements – such as a designated social network – will bring back the young, technological generation".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Our overall aim is to bring together, on a uniform platform, a designated social network that will run in all funeral homes. This uniformity will provide a solution to the existing confusion among family and friends of the deceased regarding where exactly to send condolences: through a general condolence site? Through the funeral home site? Does the funeral home have a site? Is the site adapted to mobile devices? Does it have the option of sending condolences? What type of condolences does it allow – text only? A picture? Something else? Will anyone see it was sent? With LifeVU, any activity that takes place on the profile appears instantly – not only on the funeral home screens but also on the Facebook page of the friends of the person who posted the picture, condolences, memory etc. to the profile. This allows the extended circle of friends and family to participate – including those who are not at the ceremony itself for various reasons. It also enables advertising the funeral home and this is the innovation of this service”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Developing a <a href="https://www.life-vu.com/pets" target="_blank">social network to commemorate beloved pets</a>”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“We are working in this area specifically in order to create something new that bridges the gap between life and the period when life ends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although it is commonly held, usually for good reason, that this market is very backward compared to other fields, we see an honest and real attempt on behalf of funeral home directors to ‘catch up’ to the 21st century lifestyle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is an attempt to change the concept of worldwide interaction during funerals and during the whole period following death. There is no longer any need to broadcast the ceremony from the funeral home, which is expensive and uses many resources. This brings the outside in – meaning the friends, the family, the wider circle of life, and those who couldn’t participate. It brings them into the ceremony, into the funeral home, in full view of the bereaved. There is no longer a need to turn Facebook pages into memorial pages, which can cause much unpleasantness. Instead we are providing access to a social network designated for the deceased’s loved ones after he or she dies”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Launch:</b> 2014 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Founders:</b> Meir and Asi Ohana, twin brothers. Management and R&D in Petah Tikva; design in London; management, marketing and investment in the US.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Finances:</b> Self-funded.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Target audience:</b> The general public.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Listed users:</b> Some 2,500.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">About five years ago, Meir and Asi were living in the US and they returned to Israel to pay a condolence visit to the family of a good friend who had been killed. The friend’s mother was very moved to see a picture of her son she had never seen before on Meir’s mobile phone screensaver, so she asked him to send it to her. It was then the brothers realized that nowadays when a person dies there are many pictures, videos and stories of them spread among their friends. They thought it would be a good idea to set-up a website that would concentrate all this valuable information in one place that everyone could visit and see, and they set up memories.com.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meir Ohana: “The site allows assembling memories from those who knew the deceased without having to contact them directly; controlling all the content gathered and deciding what content will be publicized and what won’t. You can make separate decisions regarding the privacy or sharing of each album, picture, video or story. The site also serves as a social network that allows commemoration in a way which is simultaneously public and private”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What are your future goals?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“For the site to become the main platform in the world for commemoration and retaining memories”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The site is intended for anyone who wants to commemorate their loved ones. In addition, we are also working on a development that allows people to preserve their memories while they are alive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nowadays there is a shift in perception, the fact is that almost none of us know who are grandparents were or the generation before them. In future we will be able to enter the memory albums of our ancestors, know where we came from and so better understand our roots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The site was constructed on an optimistic note. Our approach is that life goes on, and despite the pain we need to go on living and enjoying life”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.myheritage.com/"><b>www.myheritage.com</b></a>, <a href="http://billiongraves.com/myheritage"><b>billiongraves.com/myheritage</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Launch:</b> MyHeritage, 2005; BillionGraves, 2011 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Founder:</b> My Heritage: Gilad Japhet. Head offices are in Israel, with additional offices in the US. Over 200 employees worldwide. They work in collaboration with BillionGraves but <a href="http://blog.billiongraves.com/tag/myheritage/" target="_blank">do not own them</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Finances:</b> MyHeritage raised <a href="https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/myheritage" target="_blank">$49 million</a> from private investors and venture capital funds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Listed users:</b> MyHeritage: some 80 million.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The BillionGraves project works in collaboration with the MyHeritage family tree site. Together they are creating a digital archive of gravestones all over the world: users photograph a gravestone using an application and the picture is uploaded to the site with an automatic notation of the coordinates. Volunteers type in the text on the gravestones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What is special about your services?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aaron Godfrey, MyHeritage marketing director: “We created a global sharing tool that enables preserving the family story by gathering information about the family from different sources. We help people discover more about their family history”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What sets you apart from the others?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BillionGraves: “Advanced technology (awaiting patent) offering support in 42 languages; a system that enables handling Gregorian, Hebrew and Julian dates; and GPS location of the gravestone”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Bonus for blog readers:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“In MyHeritage we want to build a knowledge base so rich and interconnected that it allows everyone who is interested to discover, share and preserve their family history and meaningful family moments. We want to empower people with an understanding of who they are and with a sense of belonging. As a result we are also able to use our information for the greater good, for example by locating the heirs to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvPjrpse92o" target="_blank">property looted by the Nazis</a>”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Neshama </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhurHmDudplVPCF4uvMdWSLbZA52gmaIPQL3-OiL2fRugmZjf89NP7aDH372dO-6It0b4GCy4lVOLL1Trc04aQqnuF7D-MFrhwjpZ4Ce0wzKGsI9bFNTz1q6KINx4DUvpat5s95zJaJLE6f/s1600/%25D7%25A0%25D7%25A9%25D7%259E%25D7%2594.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhurHmDudplVPCF4uvMdWSLbZA52gmaIPQL3-OiL2fRugmZjf89NP7aDH372dO-6It0b4GCy4lVOLL1Trc04aQqnuF7D-MFrhwjpZ4Ce0wzKGsI9bFNTz1q6KINx4DUvpat5s95zJaJLE6f/s200/%25D7%25A0%25D7%25A9%25D7%259E%25D7%2594.jpg" width="200" /></a></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.neshama.info/">www.neshama.info</a> > <a href="http://www.neshama.net/" target="_blank">http://www.neshama.net</a> </b>in March 2017</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Launch:</b> 2013 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Founder:</b> Shelly Furman Asa, home office.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Finances:</b> Private funding. The business model will be examined later on, after the next version of the site goes live.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Target audience: </b>The general public.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Listed users:</b> Some 1,000.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Four years ago, friends of Shelly from various European countries came on a one-time visit to Israel. Of the ten days they were here, one full day was dedicated to finding the gravestone of the grandmother of one of them (a grandmother she had never met) in a Jerusalem cemetery. After seeing the condition of the gravesite, another day was dedicated to caring for it. This experience was an eye-opener for Shelly, leading her to establish a knowledge system with an internet interface. It includes documentation and a digital archive of gravestones in Israeli cemeteries, in addition to providing a service and a location to commemorate the deceased. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What differentiates your site?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shelly Furman Asa: “After standing for years, exposed to the elements, the gravestones become worn and sometimes blurred until the identity of the person buried is lost. We created an archive that perpetuates the gravestone and allows reconstructing it in future. The archive we created for digital graves enables writing an unlimited amount of text on them, unlike stone markers. There is currently no other site that contains over 130,000 gravestones in 19 cemeteries in Israel”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What are your future goals?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I’d like to translate the site into other languages in addition to Hebrew, and expand the circle of users to include people from outside the country as well”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“When I first began working on the site and consulted people about it, I was met with many reservations: ‘Why are you dealing with death?’, ‘The site is morbid!’ and so on. As the idea matured I was able to clarify the idea and explain: Firstly, I am not dealing with death itself but with the life that preceded death. And secondly, I am dealing with the people still alive who would like a place and a focal point to be alone with their now deceased loved ones. Although this is done virtually, it still allows a physical connection to the place where the deceased departed and a link to the place where to a great extent they feel that the person is still present.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Everyone dies at some point. Most leave behind people who remember them and would like to write to them, consult with them, make requests, write about them, bring up joint memories with them and so forth. On the site we see grandchildren writing to their grandparents, children writing to their parents, colleagues writing to people they worked with, students writing to teachers, and even a guy from the underworld writing to his friends ‘from that period’ about how he missed them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have already brought together family members who did not know how to find each other. They left digital letters on the gravestone of a beloved uncle. In this way their cousins were able to find them and renew the relationship. There are many such requests on the site. Although the information on the site is personal, the picture that arises is of historic events in the life of the Jewish people and the Jewish settlement of Israel, told from many personal aspects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The site is a historic documentation archive. We have correct details that are more accurate than those in historic archives – even the ones in Yad VaShem”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.pmemorials.com/">www.pmemorials.com</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Launch:</b> 2012 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Founders:</b> Alon Nativ and Roni Nimri (<a href="http://www.aleyshalechet.co.il/en-US/l/en" target="_blank">Aley Shalechet</a>). R&D in India and Israel, management and design in Israel. Office in Ra'anana.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Finances</b>: Independently funded. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Target audience: </b>The general public, funeral homes, burial societies, organizations interested in providing their members with a free commemoration area.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Listed users: </b>Undisclosed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a platform for constructing commemoration and memorial sites. The service allows private users to construct and store a commemoration site for free. Organizations and institutions can construct a site to commemorate members.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What differentiates your site?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gil Arbel, VP: “The opportunity to easily construct a memorial site, even without prior knowledge, through a user-friendly wizard. I don’t believe that there is anything different from other memorial sites, possibly other than local reference in Hebrew. The whole micro-cosmos of this niche offers practically the same thing, some are better than others. It must be kept in mind that platforms such as WIX are undermining the need for designated platforms for memorial sites”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>In that case, why is personal memorials necessary?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The field of a person’s last rites continues to be very conservative. Having said that, all over the world the field of after-death sites is growing, as technology is permeating even into the most conservative fields. We offer private end users access to information regarding their family heritage. We offer organizations the option of constructing a heritage, the consequences of which is being realized only by the current generation in Israel”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What are your future goals?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Integration into funeral home sites around the world”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SafeBeyond </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCWdXR-N7nCIKPyIFbdWrVPvcdvI7v1VrnWXUuElHv3XNfHTjCGkfGSllM5DmJ309G0z9XTkof3sijpMytSyBvr8rJSfC9Y93sqpuUjRmI91g9e7ZIW9jeXP4y8Leg6b71H9HBbIwCXBlJ/s1600/SafeBeyond+jpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCWdXR-N7nCIKPyIFbdWrVPvcdvI7v1VrnWXUuElHv3XNfHTjCGkfGSllM5DmJ309G0z9XTkof3sijpMytSyBvr8rJSfC9Y93sqpuUjRmI91g9e7ZIW9jeXP4y8Leg6b71H9HBbIwCXBlJ/s200/SafeBeyond+jpg.jpg" width="200" /></a></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Launch:</b> 2015 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Founders:</b> Moran Zur. Investor: Yaakov Engel. Office in Tel Aviv.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Finances:</b> Independently funded by the founder and the investor. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Target audience: </b>The general public, focusing on people over 60 and people at high risk due to illness, occupation or other reasons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This service enables users to store personal messages on video, text, pictures, audio or other formats, and determine who will receive them and when. Among other things one can set a date, place or event that will serve as a precondition for sending the message, a message to be posted on Facebook or Twitter etc. The site also allows sending access passwords and account details according to user guidelines. SafeBeyond is the result of the founder <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsNypGLLrYI" target="_blank">coping with his father’s death, and later on having to deal with his wife’s cancer</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What are you actually offering?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moran Zur: “We offer a solution to the human need to continue accompanying our loved ones even after we die. The initiative will help cope with death better through personal messages and content that will be released after death. These releases for the designated beneficiaries will be based on triggers pre-determined by the user, and only at the appropriate time and place after the user is deceased. Leaving an emotional inheritance can be no less important, if not more important, than leaving a physical inheritance”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What are your future goals?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“To reach every home in the world”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“In the technological era we can identify a real need to replace the deceased’s “shoebox of memories” and adapt the digital inheritance to the beneficiary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We suggest retaining each person’s heritage and messages and allow passing them on from generation to generation. At the same time this allows us to better manage all the assets we accumulate in the digital world, many of which currently fall between the cracks after our death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the social networks based themselves as an integral part of the daily life of millions of people, there is real readiness and curiosity among users to adapt themselves to the digital era in this sensitive field as well. Over the past decade we have witnessed a massive shift to saving information on digital disks, and currently also to storing them in a ‘cloud’. As a result, it is highly important to manage and save this information”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Was first posted in Hebrew in September 2015 in <a href="http://www.geektime.co.il/the-virtual-death-scene-in-israel/" target="_blank">Geektime</a> and in <a href="http://digital-era-death.blogspot.co.il/2015/09/blog-post_22.html" target="_blank">the blog</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My heartfelt thanks to Rachel (Berman) Madar for translating. </span>ורד שביט | Vered Shavithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261259743411517091noreply@blogger.com0