Digital Access, Digital Literacy, and Afterlife Preparedness: Societal Contexts of Digital Afterlife Traces

IF 5.5 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI:10.1177/20563051241274676

Lance Yong Jin Park, Yu Won Oh, Yoonmo Sang

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Abstract

This study aims to evaluate how individuals are prepared to cope with or plan for their afterlife digital footprints, by examining how (1) access, (2) literacy, and (3) preparedness for digital afterlife work in concert to influence one’s wellbeing. We found the indirect relationship between access and wellbeing and the influence of digital literacy on wellbeing was indirect, illustrating that the key to the puzzle is in the sequential step in which digital literacy incubates the readiness to cope with digital remains, which influences one’s subjective wellbeing. One of the most unrecognized challenges facing digital traces is the exploitation of post-life remain of data, as the question of who accesses, owns, or controls personal data after death remains largely unanswered. We argue that the preparedness for digital afterlife represents a new form of social concern with real-life consequences, or even a newer space for inequality debates.

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数字访问、数字扫盲和来世准备：数字来世痕迹的社会背景

本研究旨在通过考察（1）获取、（2）扫盲和（3）为来世数字生活做好准备是如何协同影响个人福祉的，来评估个人是如何准备应对或规划来世数字足迹的。我们发现，访问权与幸福感之间存在间接关系，而数字素养对幸福感的影响也是间接的，这说明谜题的关键在于数字素养孵化出应对数字遗存的准备度这一连续步骤，而这一准备度会影响一个人的主观幸福感。数字痕迹所面临的最未被认识到的挑战之一是对生后遗存数据的利用，因为谁在死后访问、拥有或控制个人数据的问题在很大程度上仍未得到解决。我们认为，为数字死后做准备代表了一种新的社会关注形式，具有现实生活的影响，甚至是不平等辩论的新空间。

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来源期刊

Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

111

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.