Dead-and-dying platforms: a roundtable

Muira McCammon; Diami Virgilio; Cody Ogden; Kevin Ackermann; Ethan Zuckerman; Robert Gehl; Saima Akhtar; Sultan Al-Azri; Catherine Knight Steele; Amber M. Hamilton; Anat Ben-David; Sarah Wasserman; Sara Namusoga-Kaale; Joy Lisi Rankin

doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2022.2071396

Dead-and-dying platforms: a roundtable

Muira McCammon, Diami Virgilio, Cody Ogden, Kevin Ackermann, Ethan Zuckerman, Robert Gehl, Saima Akhtar, Sultan Al-Azri, Catherine Knight Steele, Amber M. Hamilton, Anat Ben-David, Sarah Wasserman, Sara Namusoga-Kaale, Joy Lisi Rankin

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Open University of Israel

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Abstract

This roundtable, which unfolded over many months in 2021, brought fourteen technologists and scholars together for a full-fledged discussion of platforms and death as a metaphor. The discussion proceeds with each person responding to the previous question and then posing one of their own. Some contributors discuss the ethical quandaries that await researchers attempting to exhume digital lifeworlds of the past. Others contemplate who gets a say in what aspects of platform life are preserved. Reflecting moments of convergence and divergence around the ethics and politics of platform death, the roundtable reads as a kaleidoscope of sociotechnical values and a map of the people fighting for control over digital infrastructure that has fallen apart.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	14-30
Number of pages	17
Journal	Internet Histories
Volume	6
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2022.2071396
State	Published - 3 Apr 2022

Keywords

Graveyards
capitalism
dead-and-dying platforms
digital traces
harms
kill switches
link rot
platform death
private firms
social life

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Computer Science (miscellaneous)
History

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