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 |
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Pages (from-to) | 14-30 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Internet Histories |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 1-2 |
DOIs | |
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