This article addresses how platform closure is produced by drawing on interviews with former employees of MySpace, the social media platform popular in the mid-2000s. Focusing on how staff grappled with user-generated content and user data while sunsetting an old version of the MySpace platform in 2011 to make way for a newly configured MySpace platform that debuted in 2013, it chronicles the decisions that platform employees were faced with while closing a platform, and the values and worldviews that ultimately shaped what remained of the old site. The article shows that sunsetting a platform and acts of technological destruction more generally are not arbitrary or neutral processes with fixed outcomes, but rather processes of sociotechnical production that vary in consequential ways.

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破坏的产生：员工价值观如何塑造平台来世


本文通过对 MySpace（2000 年代中期流行的社交媒体平台）前员工的采访，探讨了平台关闭是如何产生的。重点关注员工如何处理用户生成的内容和用户数据，同时在 2011 年淘汰旧版本的 MySpace 平台，为 2013 年推出的新配置的 MySpace 平台让路，它记录了平台员工在关闭时面临的决策一个平台，以及最终塑造了旧网站剩余部分的价值观和世界观。文章表明，更普遍地来说，废弃平台和技术破坏行为并不是具有固定结果的任意或中立的过程，而是以结果方式变化的社会技术生产过程。