[Commlist] 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 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/6/1-2>

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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
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