Internet Histories double special issue 6 (1-2), Dead and Dying Platforms

The journal Internet Histories Volume 6 Issue 1-2 has been completed and is available online.

This is a special double issue “Dead and Dying Platforms” by guest editors Muira McCammon & Jessa Lingel.

Two articles are Open Access, and one is Free Access for a limited time.

The double issue may be accessed here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/6/1-2

Below, please find an overview of contents of this double issue.

Please also consider submitting an article to the journal, more information about submission can be found here http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rint20&page=instructions.

Kind regards on behalf of the Internet Histories editorial team,

Asger Harlung,
Editorial Assistant,
Internet Histories

Contents:

Editorial

• Situating dead-and-dying platforms: technological failure, infrastructural precarity, and digital decline - Muira McCammon & Jessa Lingel

Interview

• 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

Articles

• Why does a platform die? Diagnosing platform death at Friendster’s end - Frances Corry
• “Tom had us all doing front-end web development”: a nostalgic (re)imagining of Myspace | Open Access- Kate M. Miltner & Ysabel Gerrard
• The four deaths of Couchsurfing and the changing ecology of the web - Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając & Attila Márton
• Porn bans, purges, and rebirths: the biopolitics of platform death in queer fandoms - Diana Floegel
• “Everything on the internet can be saved”: Archive Team, Tumblr and the cultural significance of web archiving | Open Access - Jessica Ogden
• Forgotten passwords and Long-Gone exes: the life and death of Renren - Lianrui Jia
• “They’re describing Yelp in 1992!”: revisiting the Blacksburg Electronic Village - Tamara Kneese
• The rise and fall of MapQuest - Rowan Wilken
• “Yakety yak: Don’t talk back”: An autopsy of anonymity gone awry - Kathryn Montalbano
• r/WatchRedditDie and the politics of reddit’s bans and quarantines - Julia R. DeCook
• A ‘lifetime of indentured servitude:’ rights, labor, and gender anxieties in a dead men’s rights newsgroup - Alexis de Coning
• The death of GeoCities: seeking destruction and platform eulogies in Web archives - Katie Mackinnon | Free Access

Book Reviews

• Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking, and Sorting of the Past - by Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, Bristol University Press, Bristol, 2021. Hardcover, pp. 116, ISBN: 978-1-5292-1815-2 - Kira Allmann
• Wikipedia @ 20, stories of an incomplete revolution, edited by joseph reagle and jackie koerner, the MIT press (2020), cambridge, Massachusetts; london, England, U.S. $27.95 - Helen Hockx-Yu