Digital heritage in my eyes
Sending WeChat, Weibo, Moments... The footprints on the Internet are like a pictorial autobiography. Have you ever thought about this as your digital asset?
If the content of the text is a bit abstract, what about your game accounts and QQ members that you recharged a lot?
In the age of "cloud" life, passing one's account to future generations is no longer a simple joke.
The value of digital heritage is increasing, and how to clearly classify it has become a difficult problem, and it is also a problem that we should seriously consider.
What is "digital heritage" (link)
"Digital heritage" refers to the digital cultural heritage on the Internet, that is, written works, materials, pictures, and audio-visuals in the form of the Internet, forming a cultural heritage, that is, the reading channels, cultural channels, and The creation, recording and other content involved in blogs, forums, BBS, spaces, etc.
Personal records have historical value
■ Ji Lude Shanghai retired cadre
In the era of "Luoyang Paper Expensive", the threshold for publication was high, and there were few historical records of ordinary people.
In the Internet age, everyone can leave a message on the Internet, and conditionally leave their stories, opinions and emotions on the Internet.
Take me as an example. My experience in this life is mainly divided into three stages: 11 years as an educated youth from Shanghai to Heilongjiang, 12 years as an educated youth in Fudan University, 12 years as a teacher, and 13 years in the preparation of the Shanghai World Expo.
These experiences and experiences existed in the brain before.
After having WeChat, I will share and communicate with many friends in the educated youth group, university teachers and students group, and Expo colleague group.
The third paragraph of my experience during the work at the Shanghai World Expo has had a very important influence on many people, including me, and left too many memories.
Back then, the Shanghai World Expo Bureau had dozens of departments, but now almost every department has its own group, which is equivalent to the "Online Expo Bureau".
These groups have played a role in communicating information and helping each other.
I have set up a public account and have published nearly 400 memoir articles written by expo colleagues.
This year is the 10th anniversary of the Shanghai World Expo. I collected and compiled the photos and resumes of 15 colleagues who had died among the editors of the World Expo Bureau that year, and issued an official account in memory of those who worked together.
Why should I write, edit, and spread these memories and experiences online?
Of course, it was "immediate motivation" at the beginning. It was written by someone else, and I felt the same way, so I started typing on the keyboard.
In fact, there are two motives in the subconscious. One is to let children and grandchildren understand their ancestors.
I really want to know how my grandfather and father lived and what thoughts they once had.
But because there is no data to keep, I can only dream.
I leave my experience to my younger generations and let them understand the life of my ancestors, which may make up for my own regrets.
The second is to provide materials for future sociologists.
A society is constantly changing in terms of politics, economy, and culture.
This change is manifested in the personal destiny of Zhang San Li Si and others.
At my age, it is often said that I was "born under the red flag and growing up in New China". The experience from my childhood, combining successes and setbacks, can roughly reflect the extraordinary road New China has traveled.
Therefore, if the experiences of many ordinary people are summarized and sorted out, it will be a treasure house of sociology and history research in the future.
Furthermore, the so-called national history and local chronicles are actually inseparable from genealogy and personal memories.
Therefore, with the help of the Internet, the text written by ordinary people on the Internet is not only a personal "digital heritage", but also a legacy of social sciences.
Therefore, the "digital heritage" of ordinary people has historical value, and this point should become a consensus.
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Don't be forgotten by this world
■ Zhang Xina employees of Shaanxi Xi'an enterprise
A few days ago, I attended a college reunion, and my friends in the dormitory came to "Memories Kill".
During the four years of undergraduate study, bits and pieces of good memories came to my heart.
When I got home, I was full of thoughts.
When I couldn't sleep at night, I suddenly thought of "School Intranet"-a social networking site that many college students used every day more than ten years ago.
On a whim, I got up to log in to my account and relive the "feeling of youth".
However, it was useless for too long. Except for remembering the email address, the password was already forgotten.
It took a long time to finally retrieve the password and open the electronic album to take a look. Ruyan’s past events came into view: glimpses of the community, travel notes in the botanical garden, archived graduation photos...
It was late at night, and I was lost in thought: In the online world, what exactly do these electronic messages and social accounts mean to a person?
In the past thousands of years, it was the most common way for a person to communicate with old friends from other places.
A few thin sheets of paper carry endless emotions.
Reading "Fu Lei's Letter" last month, I was moved by the warm words in it.
The original intention of Fu Lei's family books was to educate his children. It was a great blessing that the readers could get a glimpse of the educational concepts in these family books after they were published.
In recent years, there has been an explosion of information. When I opened my eyes every day, I picked up my mobile phone and swiped on WeChat and Weibo to learn about major events at home and abroad and the dynamics of my friends; order takeaways and buy things on shopping and payment platforms; and have a good time on gaming platforms A dripping showdown.
The more convenient the life, the more complex the data.
The aggregation trajectory of personal information is what I understand as the "digital heritage".
The electronic photo album of four years of university is one of the "legacy". After many years, we accidentally "reunited" and attracted endless emotions.
Today, the Internet age is advancing rapidly, and everyone will leave their own "digital heritage."
What will they do after a hundred years?
I can't help but think of the movie "Dream Traveling", which has a very impressive sentence: "The real death is that no one in the world remembers you."
Imagine that at some occasional moment in the later life, a relative happened to see my circle of friends, Weibo status, and selfie photos.
Wouldn’t it be magical and interesting if they have the interest to learn more and gradually explore the "me" that once existed?
Perhaps this is the greatest convenience that the Internet age has given to our generation-no need to write a book and say, as long as someone still remembers it, it is not really "dead".
Just like Mr. Fu Lei, he warms many people with words and has never been forgotten by the world.
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Take precautions against account cancellation
■ Xiang Yue, Beijing company employee
In the digital age, more and more things around us become digitized. Take the subway to swipe the bus code on the mobile phone, swipe WeChat or Alipay for shopping, use social software to record our own activities, and even our heritage has become digitized.
There are still many controversies regarding the handling of digital heritage.
Some people think that digital heritage is also a part of personal heritage, especially the property in Alipay account and the information in network cloud disk, which should belong to their family members.
However, some people think that a lot of private content is recorded in their WeChat, Weibo and other accounts, and they do not want their family members to know that they should not be inherited.
Personally, I hope that all of my online heritage can be inherited by my family.
First of all, my wealth in WeChat and Alipay is more than bank deposits. I certainly hope that this part of the online heritage will be inherited by my family.
Secondly, what I left in the online world is not only the money and property in platforms such as WeChat and Alipay, but also the texts and photos I posted on the Weibo platform, the videos posted on the Douyin platform, and the family photos saved in the online disk. , E-books...These are also my precious spiritual wealth.
I hope that after my death, my family can use these digital information to remember the bits and pieces about me and the good time we spent with us.
In addition to remembrance and remembrance, I also hope that my family will say goodbye to the world after inheriting my social media account.
This year the new crown epidemic came very suddenly. Many people left the world before they had time to say goodbye to relatives and friends. It made me realize that tomorrow and unexpectedly, I don't know which one will come first.
If I pass away unexpectedly one day, I hope my family can log in to my WeChat and Weibo accounts, post the last news for me, and say goodbye to my friends and family.
However, as far as I know, in my country’s current laws and regulations, there is no personal network heritage, such as network wealth management, Yu'ebao, copyright of works, game currency, etc., which can be inherited.
Online assets such as e-mail, Weibo, and game accounts are personal network heritage, which belongs to the privacy of users and cannot be inherited.
In view of the above regulations, I took precautions and told my family members the accounts and passwords of major platforms such as WeChat and Alipay to avoid that they could only allow my accounts to be cancelled because they had not logged in for too long after my death.
Network rights are also wealth
■ Hou Xin Guangzhou Accountant, Guangdong
A colleague’s WeChat profile picture turned gray. The news of her death due to illness was announced in the third person in the circle of friends, and her husband became her WeChat heir.
This is gratifying. What she sees and feels can be preserved and passed on to her family. This is the welfare that the information age brings to mankind.
I was brought up by my grandpa and grandmother. They have passed away for many years, and now I can find very little information about them on the Internet.
I really want to know their stories, how they deal with things and their mood in the turmoil and change, how they face pressure and setbacks, and how the changes of the times have brought them.
When I lived with them, I was underage, and knew little about their stories, and I didn't understand them.
As an adult, I want to understand and ask questions, but there is no opportunity for "oral transcripts". I can only look for their shadows from contemporary stories and guess their thoughts and practices.
If there is a chance to meet the dead relatives like in the movie "Dream Travels", if they are in an era that already has an online social platform, if they can write their thoughts on "WeChat Reading" like us, and record them in the circle of friends Life, sharing food in the "under the kitchen", my "dream of crossing" should not be difficult to realize!
For ordinary people like me, what they hope to inherit through the network may not only be the stories and affection of their loved ones, but also virtual currency, game equipment or an online shop.
The Internet is becoming more and more important in people’s lives, and people’s needs for this carrier are also extending from the current communication to the online communication that preserves the history. More and more people realize that network rights are also a kind of wealth, which makes them inherited. Demand.
This kind of demand is more urgent for those who manage network resources and have made greater gains. If these first generations of Internet entrepreneurship pass away, then where will the digital heritage created by them go?
How to clearly define legal property, and is there anyone to guard such property?
A few years ago, webcasting was just entertainment. Now it has formed an industry and has become a powerful means of sales.
Perhaps, in a few years, relevant laws will have clear regulations on digital heritage, and a full-time network asset guardian company will emerge as the times require. Historical participants will remain in the memory of history through new ways to give future generations The memory crossing provides unlimited possibilities.
Family co-management + deletion of complex and simple
■ Chen Qingsong Jilin Changchun civil servant
In the Internet age, digital heritage will increase day by day, and its potential virtuality, security, and inheritance are particularly interesting.
Digital heritage still needs to be backed up to be practical.
When I did not enter the Internet age, I often cut out fragmented articles published in newspapers from newspapers, printed out articles that had not been published, and then bound and saved them in separate volumes.
With the rise of the Internet, articles that have been posted are saved with Internet links, and articles that have not been posted are directly stored in personal blogs, which are considered a long-term solution.
Once I sorted out these articles, I found that some of the links to the earlier articles were no longer found. Some articles could not be uploaded and saved in the blog. It took some effort to completely sort them out. I immediately made an electronic document and printed it out. The paper version is kept, and I lament that the "cloud" is not as practical as the "landing" for the time being.
It is safer to delete the complex and save the digital heritage.
One time my child went out to participate in a study tour organized by the school. My wife and I also took a weekend trip to the mountainous area. When it was not convenient for us to contact, my wife’s account had been stolen, and my wife’s profile picture was being played with several family members. It’s the drama of "I need money for urgent things". Fortunately, the family knows where we are, and no more unpleasant things happen.
Since then, we have started to clean up social software, blogs, mailboxes, etc., stop if you can stop, reduce if you can reduce, delete if you can delete, leave the content that is really necessary, simple and enjoy the rich While a colorful digital life, digital security cannot be ignored.
The digital heritage is managed by the family.
As a digital heritage, some can be passed down to the world. Whether it is from a legal perspective, or saves the trouble of "guessing the password", it is only for family members to manage it.
Whenever I change my mobile phone, the first thing is to enter my fingerprints and my wife’s password. I use my wife’s password for all digital applications. My wife also learns to change all her digital applications to my password.
When we still don’t know whether all of this will be considered a digital heritage and whether it can be inherited, we choose to own, manage, and guard together to prevent ominous changes in case of emergency.
The digital heritage that will be produced in the Internet age is far more than that. The various problems that digital heritage will bring may be diverse, but it is still necessary to seek "real" existence in the virtual world.
Virtual property should also be inherited
■ Zou Duo is a Beijing media person
"People are doing, numbers are turning, and clouds are calculating." The development and popularization of the mobile Internet has brought changes in the whole scene of human life: from food, clothing, housing and transportation to birth, old age, sickness and death.
Now that we are enjoying the convenience and efficiency provided by mobility and intelligence, we should also face what happens to the massive digital heritage such as social accounts, payment information, and applications after long sleep.
In fact, talking about "death" at an age full of hope and longing for such a highly uncertain topic is inevitably caught off guard, but from another angle, it is not an exaggeration to plan ahead.
In my opinion, death is the beginning of another form. We should inherit and protect all the assets left by the deceased, including digital heritage, with respect and gratitude.
We might as well express our willingness to deal with it as clearly as possible while we are alive. After we pass away, we will let the virtual heritage go with the wind in the mindset of not causing trouble and “leave the scene” as soon as possible.
First, we must clarify the boundaries.
Although intangible assets may sound less important than tangible assets, virtual data has generated actual rights and interests in real life, and it is usually used to the end of life. It is difficult to arrange it in advance. Therefore, we cannot underestimate it. Information is considered as material heritage, which is spiritual heritage, and then treated separately.
For example, Alipay, Yu'ebao, WeChat red envelopes and other virtual applications with transaction and exchange functions should be withdrawn and distributed in accordance with the law and rigid documents such as the deceased’s will, the repayment of the repayment, and the inheritance of the inheritance.
As for information that belongs to the spiritual level, such as text, voice, photos, etc., soft standards such as the value of the living person should be retained, deleted, and written off according to the deceased’s handling style and information.
Second, we must update our concepts.
The Internet will play an important role in more life scenarios, and it will also produce more types and volumes of digital information. This is the general trend.
Apart from the details of the legal level, we should strive to keep pace with the times ideologically and upgrade our cognition.
Digital heritage is a new thing, with privacy and concealment.
If you don’t say it, it is difficult for others to know which accounts you have. Even if they do, they cannot log in without a password and cannot perform other operations.
Therefore, it is recommended that you adjust your mentality, abandon the abnormal psychology of "accounting for the future" and "bad omen", organize and record your various account information in a timely manner, and use the method of making wills as much as possible, which can not only avoid unnecessary Legal disputes can also do their best to help digital heritage play a greater role in the real world.
In my daily life, a series of apps such as QR code payment, “cloud” communication, and online shopping often make me feel: technological progress has really made life better.
Because I was fortunate enough to experience this kind of comfortable and happy life, I also hope that when I leave, I can keep and pass on this beauty.