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spir-8509	Klang, Mathias; Hård af Segerstad, Ylva; Jones, Steve; Farkas, Ashley; Lange, Patricia; Micalizzi, Alessandra; Leaver, Tama; Ess, Charles	Coping with Death and Grief Through Technology	2013.0	25	.pdf	application/pdf	11523	720	58	While issues around digital death and online services are relatively new, a survey of existing policies and practices leads to the following tentative conclusions and broad recommendations for change: • at present the official policies of social media companies and online corporations are minimal and relatively blunt; • where a single account or authentication service is a gateway to different tools, services and content, there should be some ability to separate and curate these posthumously, allowing final curatorial decisions by digital executors; • due to the lack of available options and the lack of awareness of official options, many users resort to ad hoc responses, such as transferring control of online profiles to immediate family members after a user’s death; • as digital executors and online wills increasingly address social media, policies and practices will need to emerge which provide more fine-grained control over the digital legacies; and Selected Papers of Internet Research 14.0, 2013: Keywords digital death; identity; social media; Facebook; Google.	cache/spir-8509.pdf	txt/spir-8509.txt