Jed Brubaker // authoring my digital identity
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Hello there. I'm an academic who loves to solve/cause problems.I am a PhD student in Informatics at UC Irvine focusing on digital identity, social media, and human centered computing.
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Sustainability & Social Media: Scaling Social Networks to Social Movements
This project is directly concerned with issues of scale in social-computational systems. How can we exploit the power of contemporary networks to bring people together to act and operate at scale? In particular, can we draw lessons from sociological investigations of social movements to turn current interests in social media and social networking into larger-scale [...]
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Death and the Social Network: The Persistence of Digital Identity
The mass adoption of social network sites includes, as a natural consequence, the growing presence of profiles representing individuals who are no longer alive. However, the death of a user does not result in the elimination of his or her account nor the profile’s place inside a network of digital peers. Indeed, the fact that friends use a user’s profile page, post mortem, to say last goodbyes, share memories, and coordinate funereal arrangements is well known, if not frequently discussed.
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