Remains in the System: The Lives of Data in Mourning
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Considering the presences and social agency of the deceased in our design processes for loss and bereavement
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- 1. Remains in the System Recounting the Lives of Data in Mourning Selina Ellis Gray Lancaster University U
- 2. %Exploring and drawing out ethico-political dimensions behind designing for loss and bereavement % Thinking about commitments to design intervention through working with material feminist notions of care %Address the political nature of the design process %Who and what is currently included within how we currently frame sociotechnical design in bereavement o Designing for Loss & Bereavement
- 3. c Capturing and analysing practices of loss with data & the material lives of data in networks c What these practices and lives of data are saying to designing for bereavement and loss Data, Entanglement and Remediation
- 4. Social presence and agency of the dead
- 5. The ghostly online traces z Steve Jones (2004) Rich history of technologies channelling the dead Jed Brubaker & Janet Vertesi (2010) ghosts Elaine Kasket (2012) Facebook as a Modern-Day Medium Clive Seal (1999) Social life and presence dying before physical death Hallam, Hockey & Howarth (1999) Troubled binaries and otherness Tony Walter (1999) Continuing bonds and presence of the dead Douglas Davis (2002) Sociological life after death Hallam & Hockey (2001) Memory and material culture Margaret Gibson (2008) Objects invoking the presence of the dead Susan Leigh Star & Ellen Balka (2009) Shadow bodies
- 7. Created in Loving Memory Data emerges post-mortem through data created by the bereaved Data serves to invokes the social lives of the deceased With detailed eulogies and epitaphs Personalised and highly contextualised media Regular updates and caretaking. Guestbook actives. Dialogue Social networks being appropriated and data mobility Social death
- 8. The Memory Remains In 2014, an estimated 100,000 content moderators twice the headcount of Google were thought to be at work on monitoring and regulating online services and social platforms (Chen, 2014). Emerge autobiographically through day to day engagement Accidental or sudden death Turning to early and contemporary social networks in the time close to death Suicide Public capture or sharing of material at the time of death Murder or violent deaths
- 10. Constellation of Affect & Agency A nuanced consideration of agency which acknowledges unforeseen consequences of the day to day engagements with networks and agency of the computational ecology itself The social presences and data of the deceased recognised as an outlier or extreme user which needs to be taken into account within design processes Data and presences of the dead dont just emerge, but can live on through data practices and long term relations Data and presences of the dead can also be a source of distress
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