Hi All, I'm looking for literature suggestions. I'm currently starting work on a research project looking at Twitter's dismantling of the Vine video service. In line with the observation made in excellent essays like Steven Jackson's "Rethinking Repair" [1] and Marisa Cohn's "Engineering Obsolesence" [2], there seems to be a lot of research in both media studies and STS on how new technologies, products, and services get created, but not nearly so much on how older ones get dismantled, decommissioned, or enter into maintainership. I would welcome your recommendations of literature that touches on these areas. I'm interested in the topic broadly, but papers on the decommissioning of software and digital infrastructures would be particularly helpful. Many Thanks, Josh P.S. Nathan Ensmenger's "When Good Software Goes Bad: The Unexpected Durability of Digital Technologies" [3] is another paper I'd recommend to other folks interested in this topic. [1] https://sjackson.infosci.cornell.edu/RethinkingRepairPROOFS(reduced)Aug2013.... [2] http://ethnographymatters.net/blog/2014/04/21/engineering_obsolescence/ [3] http://themaintainers.org/s/ensmenger-maintainers-v2.pdf -- Josh Braun, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies Journalism Department University of Massachusetts Amherst @josh_braun Skype: wideaperture http://wideaperture.net/ new book: http://wideaperture.net/?view=book "Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more." William Least Heat-Moon