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Multi-situated app studies : methods and propositions

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Dieter, Michael, Gerlitz, Carolin, Helmond, Anne, Tkacz, Nathaniel, van der Vlist, Fernando N. and Weltevrede, Esther (2019) Multi-situated app studies : methods and propositions. Social Media + Society, 5 (2). doi:10.1177/2056305119846486 ISSN 2056-3051.

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Abstract

This article discusses methodological approaches to app studies, focusing on their embeddedness and situatedness within multiple infrastructural settings. Our approach involves close attention to the multivalent affordances of apps as software packages, particularly their capacity to enter into diverse groupings and relations depending on different infrastructural situations. The changing situations they evoke and participate in, accordingly, make apps visible and accountable in a variety of unique ways. Therefore, engaging with and even staging these situations allows for political-economic, social, and cultural dynamics associated with apps and their infrastructures to be investigated through a style of research we describe as multi-situated app studies. This article offers an overview of four different entry points of enquiry that are exemplary of this multi-situated approach, focusing on app stores, app interfaces, app packages, and app connections. We conclude with nine propositions that develop out of these studies as prompts for further research.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Application software -- Social aspects, Application software -- Political aspects, Application software -- Economic aspects
Journal or Publication Title: Social Media + Society
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN: 2056-3051
Official Date: 1 April 2019
Dates:
DateEvent
1 April 2019Published
6 June 2019Available
31 January 2019Accepted
Volume: 5
Number: 2
DOI: 10.1177/2056305119846486
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 10 June 2019
Date of first compliant Open Access: 11 June 2019
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
DFG-SFB-1187[DFG] Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschafthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
275-45-009[NWO] Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoekhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003246

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