Local grad students celebrate Gillian’s tenure with industrial quantities of Jolly Ranchers. It smells like a Sanrio store around here. I love the photos of falling candy.
Posts Tagged ‘facebook’
Celebrating Dr. Hayes’ Tenure - May 1st, 2013
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Digital Tombstones - March 19th, 2013
Press love for Jed:
“According to UC Irvine Ph.D. candidate Jed Brubaker, who spent the last three and a half years studying the phenomenon of death in social media, 30 million Facebook profiles belong to the deceased, making up a significant proportion of the Facebook population.
“Social media, broadly, does a really bad job of accounting for the fact that people might die,” Brubaker said. “But when I originally began research, people were confused about what I was even talking about. I had to stop and explain myself.”
People don’t think about how they will be survived online when creating their Facebook profiles, but people have attempted to preserve their presence and that of others since the early days of the Internet. ” [cite: The Daily (UW)]
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| Posted: 3/19/13 9:46 pm UTC by admin Make the First Comment | |
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Jed in HuffPo and Page - December 7th, 2012
Jed, our local expert on digital identity, is quoted in an article in HuffPo about Death and Facebook profiles and in the German magazine PAGE about ummm….. something …. Congrats Jed! Keep up the good work.:
The Web is profoundly changing the life of someone’s memory after their death.
“There aren’t really any norms around death and social media yet. People are kind of making it up as they go along,” says Jed Brubaker, a leading scholar in the relatively new field of digital identity and a doctoral candidate in informatics at the University of California-Irvine. “But what’s known is that this Facebook generation will have more experiences with death than any generation before it. Because anyone you ever knew, people who have naturally faded from your life, will remain there and you will stumble into them and realize they are dead.” [citation]
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| Posted: 12/7/12 11:40 pm UTC by admin Add Your Comment | |
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Jed talks social media mourning on Iowa Public Radio - July 13th, 2012
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“A lot of us live much of our lives online, and online communities are also becoming an important part of death. On today’s “Talk of Iowa”, we’ll find out about an online community for people who have lost a loved one, how funeral homes are embracing technology, and life after death on Facebook. Our guests include Heart2Soul founder Karen Zinn, John Wild of Iles funeral Home in Des Moines, Tom Frisch of GotFuneral, and PhD student studying social media mourning practices, Jed Brubaker.”
Jed’s part in the interview starts at 31:30.
My favorite moment in the interview, “oops, Sarah is no longer with us.” When a caller hangs up on Jed.
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| Posted: 7/13/12 5:41 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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UCI to lead national social computing research center - June 27th, 2012
If you were under a rock yesterday and missed this tremendous announcement, I report it here for your perusal. Paul Dourish, original founder of the LUCI lab, has coordinated a multi-million dollar donation from Intel to UCI. This was in coordination with many other folks at UCI and represents a major step forward for the LUCI lab, the Informatics department, the Bren School, UCI, etc…
“UC Irvine will anchor a new $12.5 million, Intel-funded research center that applies social science and humanities to the design and analysis of digital information.
“Technology is profoundly entangled with our everyday lives. As researchers, we can’t get a handle on what’s going on by looking at technical factors alone. We have to study them in concert with human, social and cultural aspects,” said UCI informatics professor Paul Dourish.
He and Scott Mainwaring of Intel Labs will co-lead the center, dubbed the Intel Science & Technology Center for Social Computing, along with UCI anthropology and law professor Bill Maurer.
[cite: UCI Press Release]
Paul also adds some credit where credit is due in his Facebook post:
“Exhausted and exhilarated after a busy day in San Francisco announcing our new Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing to the world. This is a great collaboration with Scott Mainwaring, Bill Maurer, Phoebe Sengers, Tarleton Gillespie, Steve Jackson, Tom Boellstorff, Kavita Philip, Geof Bowker, Gillian Hayes, Melissa Mazmanian, Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell, Erik Stolterman, Carl Disalvo, Chris Ledantec, Ian Bogost, Erica Robles, Helen Nissenbaum, and more. Very excited about our next steps!”
You can connect to the Center on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/istcsocial
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Tags: anthropology, Bill Maurer, Carl Disalvo, Chris Ledantec, collaboration, design, Erica Robles, Erik Stolterman, facebook, Geof Bowker, Gillian R. Hayes, Helen Nissenbaum, Ian Bogost, Intel, Jeffrey Bardzell, Kavita Philip, Melissa Mazmanian, Paul Dourish, Phoebe Sengers, San Francisco, Scott Mainwaring, Shaowen Bardzell, Steve Jackson, Tarleton Gillespie, Tom Boellstorff |
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| Posted: 6/27/12 5:10 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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A Life Lived (and Died) Online - March 15th, 2012
From LUCI Ph.D. graduate student Jed Brubaker, LUCI undergrad researcher Lee Taber, and LUCI faculty Dr. Gillian Hayes’s research comes this article at ReadWriteWeb entitled, “A Life Lived Online: How We Talk About Death on Social Media”:
“By examining user-generated content, the researchers were able to observe the grieving process in a naturalistic, public setting. What’s more is that this study focuses on “extreme expressions of grief and mourning in SNS following the death of a friend or loved one.” This means more than just a few Twitter-esque RIPs, trending topics and the dead popping up in one’s Facebook friend list. The researchers sought to expand the current knowledge base around the use of language in online grieving, rather than focus on the fact that people do express their grief on social media.”
The full press article is online here.
The academic article that inspired it is titled: “Grief-Stricken in a Crowd: The Language of Bereavement and Distress in Social Media” and will be published in the upcoming proceedings of ICWSM-12.
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| Posted: 3/15/12 3:53 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Is Jed trending? Technorati article goes live - March 8th, 2012
From Technorati “Over 30 Million Accounts on Facebook Belong to Dead People”
A PhD candidate at UC Irvine, Jed Brubaker, studies death and social media and has written about how both service providers such as Facebook and “friends” of the deceased handle death and social media in a research study called Death and the Social Network: The Persistence of Digital Identity.
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| Posted: 3/8/12 5:58 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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How we die in social networks - March 7th, 2012
Informatics Ph.D. student Jed Brubaker represents in this article on ReadWriteWeb today!
“Jed Brubaker, a PhD Candidate at the University of California at Irvine, jokingly refers to himself as the “death guy.” But he’s not at all morbid. He describes his stumbling into the area of studies in death on social networks as a system error of sorts.
In 2011, he published a paper called “We will never forget you [online],” an empirical investigation of post-mortem MySpace comments. Starting with this early social network, Brubaker began identifying trends which bled over into Facebook, where we’re more likely to find online memorial services occurring nowadays.”
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| Posted: 3/7/12 1:50 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Post-mortem Social Networking: Unearthing new spaces of death and grief - January 31st, 2012
Jed Brubaker’s Advancement to Candidacy is coming up. He’s on the ball enough that there is time to announce it!
February 29th, 12:00PM, DBH 5011
Committee:
Gillian R. Hayes (advisor)
Paul Dourish
Melissa Mazmanian
Geoffrey Bowker
Martha Feldman (PPD)
Post-mortem Social Networking: Unearthing new spaces of death and grief
“After we die, our online accounts live on. By one estimate, over 408,000 U.S. Facebook users died in 2011 alone. This leaves friends and families with both the opportunity and struggle of incorporating these identities into their practices of grief and mourning. The presence of post-mortem profiles raises important questions: How are practices of online memorialization connected to conventional rituals of grief and mourning? What is the role of the profile post-mortem? How do trajectories of death and dying incorporate both online and offline concerns? I present findings from two studies that detail the emerging phenomena of post-mortem profiles and of ongoing experiences with the deceased via social network sites (what I call “post-mortem social networking”). These new practices highlight spatial, temporal, and social expansions enabled by social network site infrastructure, and let us consider their impact on online behavior more broadly.”
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Tags: facebook, Geoffrey Bowker, Gillian R. Hayes, Jed Brubaker, Martha Feldman, Melissa Mazmanian, Paul Dourish |
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| Posted: 1/31/12 6:54 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Facebook Party Gets Out Of Control After German Girl Forgets Privacy Setting - June 9th, 2011
A teenage girl in Germany who forgot to mark her birthday invitation as private on Facebook fled her own party when more than 1,500 guests showed up and around 100 police officers, some on horses, were needed to keep the crowd under control.
via Facebook Party Gets Out Of Control After German Girl Forgets Privacy Setting.
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| Posted: 6/9/11 6:10 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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