Web History and Platform Studies
This collection brings together articles that interrogate the ways platforms shape and intermediate digital communications, how they evolve and eventually decline and die, while also raising at the end the issue of their legacy, archiving and preservation. These papers gather several articles published in Internet Histories since its inception, some of them being selected from the special issue 6 (1-2) of Internet Histories co-edited by Muira McCammon and Jessa Lingel in 2022.
From Facebook to Tumblr, through Instagram, YouTube, Friendster and MySpace, to name but a few, this collection demonstrates the high value of platform studies, and the different ways platforms may be approached from an historical perspective, may it be through semiotic studies, nostalgia and memory studies, qualitative analysis or/and distant reading, also intertwining many sources ranging from web archives to oral interviews.