Issues of the social web interaction project faced with afterlife digital legacy

Abstract

Interacting on the Social Web, people, feelings and properties are connected, generating digital legacy beyond life. Digital life goes further than the bodily one, and software limits make it difficult to model these aspects. Besides, there is a great difference between the criteria for identifying citizens in the real and in the virtual world, including notions of life, death and posthumous data. Interactive systems modeling concerning these issues are discussed, based on bibliographic research, observations of the Web and field research. Therefore, the volitional element is discussed, namely, software planning considering the user's decision on the destination of his digital legacy.