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The afterlife of identity

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CSCW '13: Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work companion

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2441955.2441967

Published: 23 February 2013 Publication History

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The death of a user challenges many of the assumptions we hold for social network sites, social media, and digital identity architecture. Death represents a natural breaching experiment that violates core design assumptions about the relationship between users, their accounts, and related data. By studying death in the context of social media, my work aims to understand how people interact with and experience digital identity systems. It demonstrates limitations of current architecture and provides insight into how social computing systems can better support the entirety of our lives - including when those lives come to an end.

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1. Information systems
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CSCW '13: Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work companion

February 2013

356 pages

ISBN:9781450313322

DOI:10.1145/2441955

General Chairs:
Amy Bruckman
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Scott Counts
Microsoft Research, USA
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University of Michigan, USA
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University of Minnesota, USA

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