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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
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305119846486
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 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| Volume: | 5 | |||||||||
| Number: | 2 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/2056305119846486 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | |||||||||
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