Store, interface, package, connection. Methods and propositions for multi-situated app studies

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dc.creatorDieter, Michael
dc.creatorGerlitz, Carolin
dc.creatorHelmond, Anne
dc.creatorTkacz, Nathaniel
dc.creatorvan der Vlist, Fernando N.
dc.creatorWeltevrede, Esther
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-05T08:55:56Z
dc.date.available2019-06-05T08:55:56Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis paper discusses methodological approaches to app studies, focussing on their embeddedness and situatedness within multiple infrastructural settings. Our approach arises by paying 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, makes apps visible and accountable in a variety of unique ways. Engaging with and even staging these situations, therefore, allows for political-economic, social and cultural dynamics associated with apps and their infrastructures can be investigated through a style of research we describe as multi-situated app studies. The piece offers an overview of four different entry points of enquiry that are exemplary of this overarching framework, focussing 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.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/3795
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4552
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:hbz:467-13410
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversität Siegen: SFB 1187 Medien der Kooperation
dc.publisher.placeSiegen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectSoftwarede
dc.subjectInfrastrukturde
dc.subjectApp Studiesen
dc.subjectMobile Appsen
dc.subjectSituatednessen
dc.subjectApp Storeen
dc.subjectSoftware Studiesen
dc.subjectinfrastructureen
dc.subject.ddcddc:005
dc.titleStore, interface, package, connection. Methods and propositions for multi-situated app studiesen
dc.typeworkingPaper
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dcterms.bibliographicCitationMichael Dieter, Carolin Gerlitz, Anne Helmond et al.: Store, interface, package, connection. Methods and propositions for multi-situated app studies. Hg. v. SFB 1187 Medien der Kooperation, Universität Siegen: Siegen 2018 (Working Paper Series / SFB 1187 Medien der Kooperation 4). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/3795.
local.academicbookseriesWorking paper series / SFB 1187 Medien der Kooperation
local.coverpage2021-05-29T01:50:25
local.identifier.firstpublishedurn:nbn:de:hbz:467-13410
local.source.volume4

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