Your digital afterlife : when Facebook, Flickr and Twitter are your estate, what's your legacy? /

Almost without realizing it, we have stopped saving our memories in photo albums, home movies, and letters, and have transitioned to almost total digital storage of such assets and information. Bank statements and credit card bills that we used to receive by mail and file away are now stored and acc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Carroll, Evan
Other Authors:	Romano, John (John William), 1971-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley, Calif. : [London] : New Riders ; Pearson Education [distributor], ©2011.
Subjects:	Internet > Law and legislation. Sociological jurisprudence. Internet users. Identity (Philosophical concept) Legacies. Executors and administrators. Estate planning. Digital preservation. Online authorship. Electronic information resources. Biographical sources. Online social networks. Photograph albums. Scrapbooks. Genealogy. Sociologie juridique. Internautes. Identité. Planification successorale. Internet > Art d'écrire. Sources d'information électroniques. Réseaux sociaux (Internet) Photographies > Albums. Albums de coupures. identity. photograph albums. scrapbooks.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introducing the digital afterlife
The shift to digital
A well-lived (digital) life
The artifacts of your life
The value of digital things
What you leave behind
The opportunity of digital legacy
Your legacy at risk
The birth of an industry
Before you begin
Computers and devices
Email
Social websites
Finance and commerce
Create your plan
Epilogue : the future of digital death.