Links to Artist influences

http://turbulence.org/blog/2011/07/07/data-bodies-networked-portraits-lima/

http://personas.media.mit.edu/

http://techtv.mit.edu/genres/25-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences/videos/3315-metropathologies

http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb

http://www169.pair.com/klucas/before_after/

http://www.jillmagid.net/AutoPortrait.php

http://www.number27.org/timecapsule.html

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Works Cited So Far

Cahn, Naomi. “Postmortem Life On-Line.” Probate & Property 25.4 (2011): 36-39. Academic Search Complete. Web. 2 Oct. 2012.

Kelly, Suzanne. “Dead Bodies That Matter: Toward A New Ecology Of Human Death In American Culture.”Journal Of American Culture 35.1 (2012): 37-51. Academic Search Complete. Web. 2 Oct. 2012.

Drescher, Elizabeth. “Pixels Perpetual Shine: The Mediation Of Illness, Dying, And Death In The Digital Age.”Cross Currents 62.2 (2012): 204-218. Academic Search Complete. Web. 2 Oct. 2012.

Stark, Andrew. “Forever–Or Not.” Wilson Quarterly 30.1 (2006): 58-61. Academic Search Alumni Edition. Web. 3 Oct. 2012.

Dvorak, John C. “The Permanence Of Posting Online.” PC Magazine 30.7 (2011): 1. Academic Search Alumni Edition. Web. 3 Oct. 2012.

Ana Ruíz-Rabaza, et al. “Risk Markers For Disappearance Of Pediatric Web Resources.” Journal Of The Medical Library Association 93.3 (2005): 374-380. Academic Search Alumni Edition. Web. 3 Oct. 2012.

Kaller, Noam. “Protecting Your Online You: A New Approach To Handling Your Online Persona After Death.”Berkeley Technology Law Journal 26.4 (2011): 1641-1668. Academic Search Alumni Edition. Web. 24 Oct. 2012.

Greenberg, Pam. “Life After Death Online.” State Legislatures 38.6 (2012): 8. Academic Search Alumni Edition. Web. 24 Oct. 2012.

Widstrom, Bradley J. “Adolescents’ Online Social Networking Following The Death Of A Peer.” Journal Of Youth Ministry 8.1 (2009): 81-84. Academic Search Alumni Edition. Web. 24 Oct. 2012.

Life and death; two opposites that control existence. When we are born, our life begins. When the internet was born, new life for our society began. Life also gives us our identities. We spend our whole lives building who we are, establishing connections with other lives, and maybe impacting other lives as well. We do just the same on the internet now, with social media, and other outlets on the world wide web. We can reach people in more than just by phone and letters and in person contact. Life has become more complicated. Even more so, we can become different in our internet lives than our lives away from the computer.

Then, there is death. Death comes swiftly sometimes, and sometimes it comes later than planned. We all know what happens when one dies, there is a routine that awaits their now lifeless body. However, what about the digital process of death? What happens when one life ends, and the other has to end too? Digital Inheritance Enterprises will explore the death process, through digital means. We give so much meaning to death and the deceased in real life, why not do it digitally? The internet user can customize how they want to be digitally remembered before they die with Digital Inheritance Enterprises, and also leave behind some of them that will live on in digital form.

In the end, it’s your funeral. You can die properly with some help from Digital Inheritance Enterprises.

To Do List/Timeline

Come up with a project concept
Start gathering research
name the mock company
Create a domain for the digital inheritance enterprises homepage. – registration is currently pending
work on concepts for company and begin to design plans -start this by 10/31
Come up with a thesis/opening paragraph for the first of two papers – have done by 11/7
Start to work on body paragraphs of same paper – start by 11/7
begin building the website for digital inheritance enterprises – start by 11/14
finish layout and coding for digital inheritance enterprises – have done by 11/22
make presentation for class -on 11/28
finish paper -have done by end of classes
work on content for website -do over winter break
start working on fake commercials -start after winter break
present full/almost full project to the board -two weeks before show
finish project and have in senior show -04/03/13