Research Methods

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Measuring web loss without confusing absence from an archive with nonexistence | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: A missing archive capture proves that an archive lacks a usable copy, not that the page never existed or that it disappeared at a particular moment.

How sampled platforms distort estimates of the whole internet | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: A bot estimate from one accessible platform can be useful without representing the whole internet, especially when the platform and its API already select which behavior researchers can see.