The Like economy: the politics of data and dataflows in the social web

Authors
Publication date 2012
Journal Beiträge zur Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft
Event BOBCATSSS 2012 – 20th International Conference on Information Science
Pages (from-to) 10-13
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract In this paper I would like to draw attention to the various actors involved in creating and maintaining a particular infrastructure of the social web, which is currently enabled by Facebook’s social plugins and Open Graph. This infrastructure allows the platform to transform web activities, in the form of willing and unwilling contributions, into comparable and valuable data in a Like Economy. By focusing on the medium-specific features of this infrastructure, the social plugins and Open Graph, possible ways out of these unwilling contributions will be explored.
Document type Article
Note Proceedings title: Information in e-motion: proceedings: BOBCATSSS 2012, 20th International Conference on Information Science, Amsterdam, 23-25 January 2012 Publisher: Bock+Herchen Verlag Place of publication: Bad Honnef ISBN: 9783883472874 Editors: W.F. Riekert, I. Simon
Language English
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