[Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 101, Issue 25

[Peter Timusk]

I thought of a business idea of decommissioning computers for the deceased.
In some simple situations this might be just off loading files from their PC
to someone else's PC. As we can see from your example Annika this can be
complex.


It comes in part from the British Library's reported problems with
preserving e-mails from famous persons as machines could no longer read
these files etc.. One famous demographer I worked for as a research
assistant kept old Mac computers in his office. He also talked of corporate
files from the 1960's that were inaccessible these days. This leading to
knowledge management questions.

Just some thoughts Peter Timusk B.A. legal studies and B.Math statistics in
Ottawa.



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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of annika coughlin
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Hi CT

I don't have any literature recommendations, but I think it is an
interesting topic. I have always wondered if any one has researched how
online community members, who only know each other online, deal with the
death of an online community member who they never met in the flesh. My
father was an online poet from the UK, but quite popular in Australia and
when we had to tell people of his death, it was quite interesting contacting
the various message boards he was a member of. Also - he used to play the
Wii and have a Wii character as well as a character in Animal Crossing. When
we play the Wii now, his character is still on there and it is funny when he
appears in games as his Wii character. In Animal Crossing, we built a
memorial in the game with flowers etc near his house.

It would be interesting if someone has researched anything to do with this
sort of thing.

Annika




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>Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:35:20 +0200
>From: Cagla Taskin <ctasquin at yahoo.com>
>To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
>Subject: [Air-L] Literature on online grieving and bereavement
>Message-ID: <E7681324-1D51-4053-97A8-3C1966AD2B6F at yahoo.com>
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>Dear list members,
>
>I am currently writing my Master's thesis on practices of grieving and
bereavement online, with a focus on a suicide survivors forum case study.
Any literature recommendations would be highly appreciated.
>
>Thank you in advance,
>CT
>
>
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