{"id":428,"date":"2008-11-18T17:51:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T21:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2008-11-18T17:51:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T21:51:20","slug":"death-of-a-user-the-overlooked-use-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/18\/death-of-a-user-the-overlooked-use-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of a User: The Overlooked Use-Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-432\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Death of a User\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/deathofasalesman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"258\" align=\"right\" \/>What will happen to your Facebook account when you die? What about when you try to kill it? <a href=\"http:\/\/gnovisjournal.org\/blog\/death-user-overlooked-use-case\" target=\"_blank\">gnovis is running a post of mine on the topic of &#8220;user death&#8221;<\/a>. This article considers the implications of death in online environments, and emerged out of conversations at CSCW, and the insightful work of several of my (now) peers.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a taste to wet the pallet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When online, what counts as a &#8220;body&#8221; or &#8220;identity&#8221; emerges out of the coconstruction, negotiation, and even contestation of users and technologies. While users may prove their existence with each Cartesian account (i.e., &#8220;I login, therefor I am&#8221;), the terms of their existence is often preregulated by the technology. Moreover, these jealous applications may go to extremes to prevent you from leaving. Technology does a great job of enabling our own sense of immortality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Read more here &gt;&gt;<br \/>\n<a title=\"Death of a User: The Overlooked Use-Case\" href=\"http:\/\/gnovisjournal.org\/blog\/death-user-overlooked-use-case\" target=\"_blank\">gnovis Journal &#8211; Death of a User: The Overlooked Use-Case<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What will happen to your Facebook account when you die? What about when you try to kill it? gnovis is running a post of mine on the topic of &#8220;user death&#8221;. This article considers the implications of death in online environments, and emerged out of conversations at CSCW, and the insightful work of several of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJP4m-6U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}