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You cannot log out from the grave: The implications of Facebook suggesting immortality within its death policy.

You cannot log out from the grave: The implications of Facebook suggesting immortality within its death policy.

People are barely aware that all their online profiles, pictures, and status updates will remain available online after they decease. When uploading those memories onto Facebook, we create our “digital self”. But when signing up for Facebook, users are...
By Drea Rodriguez Cervantes on 10/24/17 Comments Off on You cannot log out from the grave: The implications of Facebook suggesting immortality within its death policy.
Forever Alive: Facebook’s Death Policy and Memorialization

Forever Alive: Facebook’s Death Policy and Memorialization

55 is the average age for people to make their will, according to a certified notary. The management and distribution of properties, money and important documents are the most common possessions in these wills. No one ever asked this...
By Drea Rodriguez Cervantes on 09/24/17 Comments Off on Forever Alive: Facebook’s Death Policy and Memorialization
What happens to your online data when you die?

What happens to your online data when you die?

Not that you'd care, but it’s messy.
By Andrian Georgiev on 10/02/11 Comments Off on What happens to your online data when you die?
Cyberspace is haunted: friending dead people

Cyberspace is haunted: friending dead people

The dead are among us in ever growing numbers. They have inhabited a space without time and place where they exist and don’t exist at the same time. You can tag and poke them but be careful because  they...
By Cendy Calis on 09/26/10 1

Dissemination of Social Network Sites

Social network sites are very popular within media studies. They are common research subjects. How often did you refer to Facebook or LinkedIn when writing an article? There is not one way to explore the universe of social media....
By Chris Hoogeveen on 09/23/10 Comments Off on Dissemination of Social Network Sites