RESAW 2025: THE DATAFIED WEB
PROGRAM

Days: Wednesday, June 4th Thursday, June 5th Friday, June 6th

Wednesday, June 4th

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13:00-15:00 Session 1A: Pre-conference 1
Demonstration of BelgicaWeb: Sustaining Access to Belgium’s Born-Digital Heritage (abstract)
13:00-15:00 Session 1B: Pre-conference 2
Towards an “Algorithmic Archive”: Developing Collaborative Approaches to Persistent Social and Algorithmic Data Services for Researchers (abstract)
15:00-15:30Coffee Break
15:30-17:30 Session 2B: Pre-Conference 4
Empowering Data-Driven Research Through Digital Archives with Internet Archive’s ARCH (abstract)
15:30-17:30 Session 2C: Pre-Conference 5
Qualitative Digital Methods Workshop: Mapping the Evolution of (AI) Content Generation Infrastructures (abstract)
Thursday, June 5th

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10:45-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 5A: Platforms
11:00
Metrics on the Inside: How Platform Employees Understand Platform Health (abstract)
11:20
The platformization of the follower factory: para-platforms, automation, and labor in the market for social media engagements (abstract)
11:40
Super-App Histories: Tracing Alipay, Meituan, and WeChat through App Repositories (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 5C: Technologies and Datafication
11:00
CD-ROMs versus Online in the 90s: Hybrid Paths to Datafication (abstract)
11:20
«Finally the big internet connected to tonet»: infrastructure, websites, users practices and imaginaries as the components of the «-net» (abstract)
11:40
A Hidden Track? The start of implementation and the current use of trac(k)ing methods concerning the Internet of Things basic technology Bluetooth. (abstract)
12:30-14:00Lunch Break (Mensa Food Court, across the street)
14:00-15:30 Session 6A: Gender and Intimacy
14:00
“The flames are 50/50 right now”: content moderation practices at the onset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States (1982–1990) (abstract)
14:20
A Marriage of Convenience: Transgender Websites within LGBT+ Hyperlink Networks, 2009-2022 (abstract)
14:40
Flashing Intimate Things in People's Faces. Intimate Computing and the Datafied Web. (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 6B: Web archives practices
14:00
Bulk access to web-archived data using APIs (abstract)
14:20
Navigating the Datafied Web: User requirements and literacy with web archives (abstract)
14:40
Lessons learnt from preparing collections as data: the UK Web Archive experience (abstract)
15:30-16:00Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Session 7A: Web Archives as Data
16:00
Mining Digital Terror: A Case Study in Using September 11 Web Archives as Data (abstract)
16:20
Establishing which websites constituted a national web in the 1990s (abstract)
16:40
Datafication of Web Archives and the Periodization of Website History: A Case Study of the National Museum of Australia (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session 7B: RSNs
16:00
To Monetize or not to Monetize: doubts, resistance and U-turns in early YouTubers communities (abstract)
16:20
Tumblr Purge: A Story Told Through Data (abstract)
16:40
The business of datafied identity: LiveRamp’s evolution in the audience economy (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session 7C: Social Media and APIs
16:00
Robots.txt and A History of Consent for Web Data Capture (abstract)
16:20
On Reciprocity - Algorithmic Interweavings between PageRank and Social Media (abstract)
16:40
APIs. How their role in the history of computing and their software engineering principles shape the modern datafied web. (abstract)
17:30-18:00Coffee Break
19:30-22:00Dinner Reception (Unteres Schloss Foyer, US-C 150)
Friday, June 6th

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10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 10B: Platform Histories Roundtable
11:00
Platform Histories Roundtable (with Miglė Bareikytė, Marcus Burkhardt, Devika Naraya, Anne Helmond, Fernando van der Vlist) (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 10C: Past Metrics
11:00
Translating Web Data into Media History: A Methodological Reflection of Archiving and Analyzing the XS4ALL Homepage Collection. (abstract)
11:20
The early datafied web: Visitor counters on the Danish web in the 1990s (abstract)
11:40
From Hit Counters to the Professionalisation of Web Metrics in Luxembourg (1990s-Mid-2000s) (abstract)
12:30-14:00Lunch Break (Mensa Food Court, across the street)
14:00-15:30 Session 11A: Data Regimes
14:00
Historicizing Environmental Data on the Web: Surfrider.org, 1997-2024 (abstract)
14:20
The un/expected work of open data policies (abstract)
14:40
Investigative turn in the Baltics in times of war in Europe (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 11B: Web archives Practices
14:00
Temporally Extending Existing Web Archive Collections for Longitudinal Analysis (abstract)
14:20
Engaging audiences with the UK Web Archive: Strategies for general readers, data users, and the digitally curious (abstract)
14:40
Seed lists on themes and events on Arquivo.pt: a curious starting point for discovering a web archive (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 11C: Methods
14:00
Critical AI technography: Researching the material political economy and power of AI platforms (abstract)
14:20
AI: A Lever for ‘Decolonizing’ Archives? Web Archives as a Datafield for Critical and Inclusive Uses of AI in History (abstract)
14:40
Echoes of Dolly: isolating long-term political schemata by abstracting web archives as Zotero collections (abstract)
15:30-15:45Coffee Break
15:45-16:30 Session 12: My PhD in 5 Mns
15:45
Before WEB 2.0: A Cultural History of Early Web Practices in the Netherlands from 1994 until 2004 (abstract)
15:50
Manifesting The Web: Network Imaginaries in Manifesto Writing Between the 1980s and the 2020s (abstract)
15:55
Battlefield of Truth(s) on Investigative Frontlines: From Data Activism to OSINT Professionalism (abstract)
16:30-16:45Coffee Break