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Jester, Natalie 
ORCID: 0000-0002-7995-3028
(2023)
Digital Decay and the Global Politics of Virtual Infrastructure.
E-International Relations.
Abstract
My work is based on the analysis of digital data. I began my PhD with an interest in the representation of identity and international security within online news, examining articles from the mainstream British press. I would carefully collect the URL for each article and dutifully put all of these in my reference. After my PhD, I stayed in the same vein, moving towards the examination of social media data. I came to this through a desire to look at the social media posts of arms manufacturers. I noticed that they had accounts on Twitter and thought that it would be be interesting to examine what they were saying and how. I began this project soon after submitting my PhD in 2019. The landscape is somewhat different now, and it is in this context that I reflect upon the issue of digital decay and the global politics of virtual archives, as well as key methodological issues of data preservation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Article Type: | Article |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Digital data; Digital decay; Digital research |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JZ International relations |
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences |
| Research Priority Areas: | Society and Learning |
| Depositing User: | Natalie Jester |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jul 2023 15:50 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Aug 2023 08:24 |
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/12928 |
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