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Grief in a Digital Age

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Source : http://www.lifeinsurancefinder.com.au/digital-mourning-online-grief-and-loss/ This is a link to a long post that deals with a bundle of tricky issues including trolls, planning for a digital death, online memorials, vandalism and dealing with death in an online world. Also check out  Grieving with Facebook  Conferences, Blogs, Websites, Books and Artists .   Facebook's Afterlife  published - " International media coverage ". 

Grief in a Digital Age

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Source : http://www.lifeinsurancefinder.com.au/digital-mourning-online-grief-and-loss/ This is a link to a long post that deals with a bundle of tricky issues including trolls, planning for a digital death, online memorials, vandalism and dealing with death in an online world. Also check out  Grieving with Facebook  Conferences, Blogs, Websites, Books and Artists .   Facebook's Afterlife  published - " International media coverage ". 

Grief in a Digital Age

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Source : http://www.lifeinsurancefinder.com.au/digital-mourning-online-grief-and-loss/ This is a link to a long post that deals with a bundle of tricky issues including trolls, planning for a digital death, online memorials, vandalism and dealing with death in an online world. Also check out  Grieving with Facebook  Conferences, Blogs, Websites, Books and Artists .   Facebook's Afterlife  published - " International media coverage ". 

6 selves of being digital: Digital Footprints #bonstewart

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Image : Source : http://theory.cribchronicles.com/2012/05/06/digital-identities-six-key-selves/ and read the comments at the end – below is a copy of the definitions provided Six Key Selves of Networked Publics from Bon   1. The Performative, Public Self The networked self is neither a discrete, unique snowflake that can be examined entirely unto itself, outside relationality, nor a generic group member. The networked self is linked in multiple, complex, individual node-to-node relationships with others as part of an ever-shifting public. It is also  performative , constituting itself within that public through its practices and gestures. Within network publics the performative self experiences both the flattening of hierarchies across space and status (I talked to theorist Henry Giroux on Twitter the other day! And he followed me back! Yay! Access!) and the network theory principle that big nodes are more likely to attract attention and links (Giroux didn’t actually talk back to me

6 selves of being digital: Digital Footprints #bonstewart

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Image : Source : http://theory.cribchronicles.com/2012/05/06/digital-identities-six-key-selves/ and read the comments at the end – below is a copy of the definitions provided Six Key Selves of Networked Publics from Bon   1. The Performative, Public Self The networked self is neither a discrete, unique snowflake that can be examined entirely unto itself, outside relationality, nor a generic group member. The networked self is linked in multiple, complex, individual node-to-node relationships with others as part of an ever-shifting public. It is also  performative , constituting itself within that public through its practices and gestures. Within network publics the performative self experiences both the flattening of hierarchies across space and status (I talked to theorist Henry Giroux on Twitter the other day! And he followed me back! Yay! Access!) and the network theory principle that big nodes are more likely to attract attention and links (Giroux didn’t actually talk back to me

thinking about defaults for your privacy settings - worth watching this.

Dan Ariely is professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University. He is a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight, and author of "Predictably Irrational."

Sneaky apps and your personal data

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