App Ecosystem Analysis
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📂Mobile App Ecosystems This chapter introduces methods for analyzing app ecosystems, emphasizing that apps are not stand-alone entities but exist within larger ecosystems. It outlines three approaches: apps “for that,” examining thematic collections of apps like those addressing the COVID-19 pandemic; apps “for” apps, focusing on apps developed for specific platforms like social media apps; and apps in apps, investigating third-party services embedded within apps. The chapter concludes by highlighting the importance of these approaches for understanding the cultural, economic and political dynamics of app ecosystems.
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ℹNote: This section is part of The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media, a book edited by G. Goggin and L. Hjorth, published with Routledge.
📋 ✍Cite
| 📋Cite (APA) | van der Vlist, F. N., Helmond, A., & Weltevrede, E. J. T. (2025). App Ecosystem Analysis. In G. Goggin & L. Hjorth (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media (2nd Ed.). New York, NY, USA; London, UK: Routledge, pp. 299–310. DOI: 10.4324/9781003166016-38. |
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| 🔗Link (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003166016-38 |
| Kind | Edited Book; Book Section |
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| Author (Section) | F. N. van der Vlist; A. Helmond; E. J. T. Weltevrede |
| Publication Date | 2025, September 2 |
| Book | The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media |
| Edition | 2 |
| Editor | G. Goggin; L. Hjorth |
| Pages | 299–310 (12) |
| Publisher | Routledge (New York, NY, United States; London, United Kingdom) |
| Identifier | 10.4324/9781003166016-38 [self]; 10.4324/9781003166016 [part of]; 978-0367759049 [part of]; 978-1003166016 [part of]; SPI.2021.001 [funded by]; 262513311 [funded by]; VI.Veni.191C.048 [funded by] |