Death in the Digital World

Goff, E. S.

doi:10.33043/dlr.7.0.137-144

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“…There too, research‐driven guidance could be useful, but must be no less carefully informed and adapted for different cultures and cases. Significant challenges are evident in the literature: issues of legacy, inheritance, privacy protection, social and psychological aspects of grieving through interactions with data in online environments, and more philosophical and ethical issues of digital immortality and resurrection through data (Goff, 2020; Sisto, 2020). Deliberate actions of a person and wishes expressed through wills or informal conversations affect how bereaved families deal with legacy and inheritance.…”

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“…But it also holds potential for use in digital archeology, where deceased individuals with rich data footprints or digitalized materials could be digitally resurrected to represent their bygone times to those studying them (Ulguim, 2018). However, this so‐called immortality has been critically questioned regarding its helpfulness in grieving and for its ethical implications (discussed below), and it has thus been characterized as a phenomenon “where technological innovation used to remember the dead meets an attempt to resurrect them” (Goff, 2020, p. 137).…”

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Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Dinneen,

Krtalić,

Davoudi

et al. 2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Death is an inevitable part of life and highly relevant to information management: its approach often requires preparation, and its occurrence often demands a response. Many works in information science have acknowledged so much, and yet death is rarely a focused topic, appearing instead sporadically and disconnected across research. As a result there is no introduction to, overview of, or synthesis across studies on death and information. We therefore conducted an extensive literature search and reviewed nearly 300 scholarly publications at the intersection of death and information (and data) management. Covering seven topics in total, we review two groups of work directly engaging information management in relation to death (digital possessions, inheritance, and legacy; information behavior, needs, and practices around death), three engaging death and technology that require information and its management (death and the Internet, thanatosensitive design and technology‐augmented death practices, and the digital afterlife and digital immortality), and two reflecting the ethical and legal dimensions unique to death and information. We then integrate the collective findings to summarize the landscape of death‐related information research, outline remaining challenges for individuals, families, institutions, and society, and identify promising directions for future information science research.

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Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Dinneen,

Krtalić,

Davoudi

et al. 2023

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“…The digital age brings new and innovative ways to incorporate memory of deceased children. Adolescents and young adults (AYA) with terminal prognoses are facing the conundrum of how to deactivate or set up their Social Media (SM) accounts as memorials [ 127 ]. Many teens find belonging and community through SM, where they cultivate close relationships.…”

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Current Grief Support in Pediatric Palliative Care

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Grief support changes as more is learned from current grief theory and research. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of current grief support as it relates to Pediatric Palliative Care (PPC). The following aspects of grief are addressed: (1) anticipatory grief: the nondeath losses that occur with a complex and chronic illness, as well as the time leading up to death; (2) grief around the time of death: the intense and sacred experience of companioning with a dying child; (3) grief after death: supporting bereavement and mourning through programing and other methods; (4) innovative approaches: the future of grief support. The contents of this article are meant to support and educate programs currently providing grief services and those aiming to begin the meaningful work of grief support.

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Death in the Digital World

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Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Current Grief Support in Pediatric Palliative Care

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