Lorenz Widmaier
Areas of Research
Work Package 2 “Connectivities built by people and groups”
PhD Project 5
Thesis
Sharing vs. collecting: biographical memories and digital death (working title)
Abstract: The project will reflect upon personal memory practices in the digital realm, and questions online repositories as durable archives of memories. It attempts to understand common practices and challenges of what happens to people’s online and public lives, for instance, on social media, when they die.
Supervisors
Biography
Academic Qualifications
Oct 2018
PhD Candidate at the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology
2008-2009
Master of Arts in Photography and Urban Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom
2005-2008
Bachelor in Communication and Cultural Management, Zeppelin University, Germany
Work Experience
2015-2018
Lecturer at University of Hamburg, Germany
2009-2018
Founding and leading a full-service digital agency
Research Interests
- (visual) sociology
- internet studies
- photography
- urban (sub)cultures
Publications
Widmaier, L. (2021). „So viel vom Leben findet in den Geräten statt …“ Ein Leitfaden zur Nachlassvorsorge für digitale Daten. In: Bestattungskultur, 2021(4), FVB, pp. 34-36.
Widmaier, L. (2020).Da ist noch etwas für die Ewigkeit: Das digitale Erbe und seine Bedeutung für Trauer und Erinnerung. In: Bestattungskultur (6). Düsseldorf, Bundesverband Deutscher Bestatter e.V., S. 38-40 (English translation).
Interviews, Blogs & Podcasts
Widmaier, L. (2020). What happens to my digital legacy after my death? In: MemoryandYouth.com [Weblog].
Widmaier, L./ Lander, H.(2020). Die digitale Trauer ersetzt die analoge nicht. In: Heike-Lander.de [Weblog].
Recent Conferences and Workshop Presentations
Widmaier, L.: “Heritage & death in digital futures” at the digital 5th Biennial Conference “ACHS 2020 FUTURES” of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS), 26-30. Aug. 2020.
Widmaier, L.: “Memory & Death in the Digital Society” at Cyprus Rectors Conference, 1st Doctoral Kolloquium at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 30. Sept. 2019.
Widmaier, L.: “Divide-and-conquer: Artistic approaches to curate the web” at IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2019, National and University Library in Zagreb, Croatia, 6-7. June 2019.
Widmaier, L.: Opening Conference POEM (Horizon 2020), Hamburg, 13-14. Dec. 2018.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 764859.
