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Digital Access, Digital Literacy, and Afterlife Preparedness: Societal Contexts of Digital Afterlife Traces
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This study, conducted by Lance Yong Jin Park, Yu Won Oh, and Yoonmo Sang, explores how access, digital literacy, and preparedness for one’s digital afterlife work together to shape subjective wellbeing. The authors reveal indirect pathways—digital literacy nurtures readiness to manage digital remains, which then affects wellbeing—and raise urgent concerns about post-mortem data exploitation and unresolved questions of who controls personal data after death, arguing preparedness is a new social-inequality issue.
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