Digital Death and Thanatechnology: New Ways of Thinking about Data (Im)Mortality and Digital Transformation

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dc.authorid0000-0001-6114-3265en_US
dc.authorid0000-0002-4446-4865en_US
dc.authorscopusid-en_US
dc.authorscopusid57226072431en_US
dc.authorwosid-en_US
dc.authorwosidJ-5821-2018en_US
dc.contributor.authorBiçer, Şehmus
dc.contributor.authorYıldırım, Arif
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-18T08:40:38Z
dc.date.available2023-04-18T08:40:38Z
dc.date.issued2022en_US
dc.departmentFakülteler, İletişim Fakültesi, Gazetecilik Bölümü
dc.description.abstractDigital technologies such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence are changing how we live and do research, for example, the ways in which patient-reported outcomes and phenomics big data are curated and analyzed. Digital transformation is everywhere and is reshaping data (im)mortality in a wide range of sectors in medicine, engineering, journalism, and beyond. In this context, thanatechnology is a term introduced by Carla Sofka over two decades ago, referring to "any kind of technology that can be used to deal with death, dying, grief, loss, and illness."The field of thanatechnology has become relevant in the digital age as social media is full of accounts from dead individuals, whereas digital media is often harnessed as a source of data and metadata, and in times of pandemics and normalcy. Emerging macroscale analyses forecast billions of social media user accounts from deceased persons in the current century. What happens to digital remains of persons once they cease to exist physically? Digital death, or its absence in the case of deceased individuals, becomes a challenge for both data availability and veracity, and confound research and public health services. Data (im)mortality and digital death are also relevant for research on past events of significance for public health, for example, to discern the history of pandemics and ecological threats. This article examines and calls for new ways of thinking about digital death and thanatechnology as integral dimensions of digital transformation in medicine, new media studies, and society in the 21st century.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBiçer, S., & Yıldırım, A. (2022). Digital death and Thanatechnology: New ways of thinking about data (im)mortality and digital transformation. OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology, 26(2), 88-92. doi:10.1089/omi.2021.0096en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1089/omi.2021.0096
dc.identifier.endpage92en_US
dc.identifier.issn1536-2310
dc.identifier.issn1557-8100
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.pmid34171977
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85124433818
dc.identifier.startpage88en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1089/omi.2021.0096
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/4038
dc.identifier.volume26en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000668210400001
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.institutionauthorBiçer, Şehmus
dc.institutionauthorYıldırım, Arif
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMary Ann Liebert Inc.en_US
dc.relation.ispartofOMICS A Journal of Integrative Biologyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectBig data and societyen_US
dc.subjectDigital deathen_US
dc.subjectDigital transformationen_US
dc.subjectDigital zombiesen_US
dc.subjectNew media studiesen_US
dc.subjectThanatechnologyen_US
dc.titleDigital Death and Thanatechnology: New Ways of Thinking about Data (Im)Mortality and Digital Transformation
dc.typeArticle

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