Digital dying in personal information management towards thanotosensitive information management

Tese de mestrado. Multimédia. Universidade do Porto. Faculdade de Engenharia. 201

Leandro Erlich: Towards A Collaborative Relationship Between Architecture and Art

For this Museum Studies capstone project, I presented and developed a proposal and project plan for an exterior interactive exhibition of an Argentinean artist, Leandro Erlich, at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) in San Francisco, California. After researching diverse conflicts between architects and artists in the art museum context, my goal was to show an approach in which art can “dialogue” with the exterior features of the CJM’s cutting edge building. To be presented on the courtyard entrance of the Libeskind construction, the exhibition that I propose will potentially prove that an effective relationship can be established outside the common interior galleries of the museum by embracing each other’s work. Furthermore, the audience will be invited to interact within the piece. The interior exhibition will be complemented with an educational program and an afterlife publication. Included in this document is my project description and proposal, my goals and objectives, a thorough action plan including departmental tasks, timelines and milestones, an annotated bibliography and six appendices that bring this project to life

Personal digital archiving: An annotated bibliography for librarians and patrons

This project was in partial fulfillment of our LIS586: Digital Preservation class in the Fall semester of 2015. Our assignment was to create an annotated bibliography containing two reading lists for a public library that is trying to extend its service offerings to include advising patrons on how to preserve their personal digital materials. One list is for the librarian, the other for the patron. This is a legitimate resource for anyone wishing to find out more about or find a reliable reading list of sources about personal digital archiving.Ope

Comm-entary, Spring 2016 - Full Issue

In this issue: Make Graffiti, Not War by Mikayla Schaefer The Photograph as a Montage by Christopher Kuist Washing Away Dirty Marketing by Ashley Layton An Ethical Dilemma in Media: “A Rape On Campus” by Jenna Ward Networked Movements & Social Change: The Success of #BlackLivesMatter by Carolyn Riley Body Cameras and the Problem of Technological Solutionism by Sean Fleese Persuasion Techniques in Reconceptualization Science: Rethinking Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation by Mikayla Collins Theories for Theories: A Rhetorical Analysis of Nancy Krieger’s Theories for social epidemiology in the 21st century: an ecosocial perspective by Dana Gingras The Anxiety of Digital Afterlife by Jacqueline Van Sickl

The Rapture Of Being Alive: Mourning, Narrative, And Communicative Ritual In The Digital Age

Conversations have an afterlife. But what if the afterlife could have conversations? In that metaphorical space, the author explores how technology and design will engender new communicative rituals and tools of mourning as the semiotics of traditional gravescapes begin to diffuse. This pivot will occur in tandem with the rise of alternative forms of body disposition and growing environmental stewardship in response to increased urbanization and notions of intergenerational equity. Digital space, the postmodern hearth of an ever individualized and fractured society, will enable a plurality of mourning as the idea of legacy is deconstructed within the framework of transhumanism and the construction of the self. This paper will investigate the multidisciplinary, synaptic connections of narrative, digital technology, bereavement studies, thanatology, post-humanism, gifting, and sustainability in order to support my proposal for the design white space surrounding end-of-life care. The final design, an extension of the Death Positive movement, is called LifeWrite; however, its implementation transcends the physical endpoint of death. LifeWrite is endowed with multiple life course applications. The final design is also intended to be a therapeutic tool for those persons or families navigating forms of psychosocial death, i.e. various dementias, certain mental illnesses, or traumatic brain injuries

The Afterlife of Software

Death on the internet is not limited to human death. The business model of planned obsolescence, the technical work of preserving old websites, systems, and applications, as well as a cultural emphasis on the new and immediate all combine to make the internet a place where many software technologies have gone to die. Networked modes of living engender networked modes of loss, and a key question is how our connection to the past is reconfigured when software dies. In terms of digital preservation strategies, emulation may also be distinguished from migration, or periodically moving data and software to new environments, “rewriting” them as required. Software does not end with source code, nor with electronic pulses producing material changes in underlying hardware and storage media. If bottom-up, continuous preservation is the way forward, then software’s afterlife will depend not just on the work of a few heritage institutions

The Rapture Of Being Alive: Mourning, Narrative, And Communicative Ritual In The Digital Age

Conversations have an afterlife. But what if the afterlife could have conversations? In that metaphorical space, the author explores how technology and design will engender new communicative rituals and tools of mourning as the semiotics of traditional gravescapes begin to diffuse. This pivot will occur in tandem with the rise of alternative forms of body disposition and growing environmental stewardship in response to increased urbanization and notions of intergenerational equity. Digital space, the postmodern hearth of an ever individualized and fractured society, will enable a plurality of mourning as the idea of legacy is deconstructed within the framework of transhumanism and the construction of the self. This paper will investigate the multidisciplinary, synaptic connections of narrative, digital technology, bereavement studies, thanatology, post-humanism, gifting, and sustainability in order to support my proposal for the design white space surrounding end-of-life care. The final design, an extension of the Death Positive movement, is called LifeWrite; however, its implementation transcends the physical endpoint of death. LifeWrite is endowed with multiple life course applications. The final design is also intended to be a therapeutic tool for those persons or families navigating forms of psychosocial death, i.e. various dementias, certain mental illnesses, or traumatic brain injuries