Platform and App Histories:
Assessing Source Availability in Web Archives and App Repositories
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๐Doing 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 โbiographiesโ with web archives and software repositories.
๐ทplatforms ๐ทapps ๐ทweb historiography ๐ทweb archiving ๐ทapp archiving
โนNote: 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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๐Cite (APA) | Helmond, A. & van der Vlist, F.โN. (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. 203โ214. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-63291-5_16. |
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๐Link (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63291-5_16 |
Kind | Edited Book; Book Section |
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Author (Section) | A. Helmond; F.โN. 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 | 203โ214 (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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