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Platform and App Histories:
Assessing Source Availability in Web Archives and App Repositories



๐Ÿ“‚Doing App and Platform Historiography In this chapter, we discuss the research opportunities for historical studies of apps and platforms by focusing on their distinctive characteristics and material traces. We demonstrate the value and explore the utility and breadth of web archives and software repositories for building corpora of archived platform and app sources. Platforms and apps notoriously resist archiving due to their ephemerality and continuous updates. As a consequence, their histories are being overwritten with each update, rather than written and preserved. We present a method to assess the availability of archived web sources for social media platforms and apps across the leading web archives and app repositories. Additionally, we conduct a comparative source set availability analysis to establish how, and how well, various source sets are represented across web archives. Our preliminary results indicate that despite the challenges of social media and app archiving, many material traces of platforms and apps are in fact well preserved. We understand these contextual materials as important primary sources through which digital objects such as platforms and apps co-author their own โ€˜biographiesโ€™ with web archives and software repositories.


โ„นNote: This section is part of The Past Web: Exploring Web Archives, a book edited by D. Gomes, E. Demidova, J. Winters, and T. Risse.


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๐Ÿ“‹Cite (APA) Helmond, A. & van der Vlist, F.โ€ŠN. (2021). Platform and App Histories: Assessing Source Availability in Web Archives and App Repositories. In D. Gomes, E. Demidova, J. Winters, & T. Risse (Eds.), The Past Web: Exploring Web Archives. Cham, CH: Springer, pp. 203โ€“214. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-63291-5_16.
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Kind Edited Book; Book Section
Author (Section) A. Helmond; F.โ€ŠN. van der Vlist
Publication Date 2021, July 1
Book The Past Web: Exploring Web Archives
Editor D. Gomes; E. Demidova; J. Winters; T. Risse
Pages 203โ€“214 (12)
Publisher Springer (Cham, Switzerland)
Identifier 10.1007/978-3-030-63291-5_16 [self]; 10.1007/978-3-030-63291-5 [part of]; 978-3-030-63290-8 [part of]; 978-3-030-63290-5 [part of]; 275-45-009 [funded by]; 262513311 [funded by]


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๐Ÿ–‡Attached Name ๐Ÿ•“Date Modified โ†ง Kind Access
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โ†ช Platform and App Histories 2020-09 ๐Ÿ“„ ๐Ÿ”Conference Proceeding ๐Ÿ”“Open Access
๐Ÿ“Œ Social Media and Platform Historiography 2019-11-06 ๐Ÿ“„ ๐Ÿ”Research Article ๐Ÿ”“Open Access
โ†ช App (Store) Policy Histories 2019-07 ๐Ÿ“Web Report ๐ŸŒPublic
Facebookโ€™s Evolution 2019-05-01 ๐Ÿ“„ ๐Ÿ”Research Article ๐Ÿ”“Open Access
โ†ช Apps and Their Stories 2019-01 ๐Ÿ“Web Report ๐ŸŒPublic
โ†ช Historical Facebook Platform โ€˜Boundary Resourcesโ€™, 2006โ€“2018 2018-12-07 ๐Ÿ—„Research Data ๐Ÿ”“Open Access
๐Ÿ“Œ The Platform Society Diagrams 2018-11-02 ๐Ÿ“ŠInfographics
The Political Economy of Social Data 2017-07-28 ๐Ÿ“„ ๐Ÿ”Conference Proceeding ๐Ÿ”’Closed