Privacy with Public Access: Digital Memorials on QR Codes

Stine Gotved

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Abstract

Digital memorials are part of a bigger picture of changing rituals for mourning, remembrance, and legacy. However, the focus of this presentation is how digital memorials perforate the (already uneasy) distinction between private and public, both in physical and emotional space. The ongoing study takes the departure in gravestones with QR-codes; objects at once physical and digital, underhandedly putting presumably private content within public reach. A plethora of issues of privacy and publicness are at play within the study's two connected but rather different empirical spaces: the physical space with the stonecutters, the cemetery, and the grave, and the emotional space of significance and forms of expression. In this study, the gravestones with QR codes act as a prism for cultural change within the subjects of death, bereavement and memorials. The ongoing negotiation of definitions in the borderland between private and public is exemplified, and with the presentation, we are ensuring a continued discussion on privacy as well as legacy in our digital society.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftInformation, Communication & Society
Vol/bind18
Udgave nummer3
Sider (fra-til)269-280
Antal sider11
ISSN1369-118X
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2015
BegivenhedIR15: Boundaries and Intersections - Millennium Hilton Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Varighed: 22 okt. 201425 okt. 2014
Konferencens nummer: 15
http://ir15.aoir.org/

Konference

KonferenceIR15: Boundaries and Intersections
Nummer15
LokationMillennium Hilton Bangkok
Land/OmrådeThailand
ByBangkok
Periode22/10/201425/10/2014
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