M.S. Thesis

My master’s thesis titled, “Supporting Account-based Queries for Archived Instagram Posts”. We addressed a fundamental challenge in social media preservation: valuable Instagram content exists in web archives, but users often cannot discover it because they do not know the original post URLs. I developed two approaches to enable users to retrieve archived Instagram posts associated with a specific account, one leveraging WARC revisit records within the Internet Archive and the other using an external index mapping Instagram accounts to their posts. I implemented and evaluated both approaches, highlighting their practical advantages and limitations for web archives.