Social media and democracy: The state of the field, prospects for reform

N Persily, JA Tucker, JA Tucker - 2020 - books.google.com
Introduction/Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker--Misinformation, disinformation, and
online propaganda/Andrew M. Guess and Benjamin A. Lyons--Social media, echo …

Research perspectives on TikTok & its legacy apps| research perspectives on TikTok and its legacy apps—introduction

J Zeng, C Abidin, MS Schäfer - International Journal of Communication, 2021 - ijoc.org
TikTok, a short-video app featuring video content between 15 and 60 seconds long, has in
the last few years become immensely popular around the world. Because of its Chinese …

[BUCH][B] Platforms and cultural production

T Poell, DB Nieborg, BE Duffy - 2021 - books.google.com
The widespread uptake of digital platforms–from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and
TikTok–is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways …

Dritter, digitaler Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit als Folge der Plattformisierung

M Eisenegger - … der Öffentlichkeit: Historische Verortung, Modelle und …, 2021 - Springer
Als wesentliche Ursache des in diesem Beitrag elaborierten dritten, digitalen
Strukturwandels der Öffentlichkeit werden nicht Prozesse der Digitalisierung per se …

Introduction: Critical studies of digital education platforms

M Decuypere, E Grimaldi, P Landri - Critical Studies in Education, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In addition, we stress that all contributors to this Special Issue are addressing digital
education platforms, and hence, that the articles gathered here do not have a generic …

The costs of connection: How data is colonizing human life and appropriating it for capitalism

N Couldry, UA Mejias - The costs of connection, 2019 - degruyter.com
Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to" connect" through digital
means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data …

The co-evolution of two Chinese mobile short video apps: Parallel platformization of Douyin and TikTok

DBV Kaye, X Chen, J Zeng - Mobile Media & Communication, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
TikTok is the international twin of China's mobile short video app, Douyin, and one of the
fastest growing short video platforms in the world. Owned by Chinese tech giant, ByteDance …

Seeing the forest for the trees: Visualizing platformization and its governance

J Van Dijck - New Media & Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The complexities of platforms are increasingly at odds with the narrow legal and economic
concepts in which their governance is grounded. This article aims to analyze platformization …

Disinformation as political communication

D Freelon, C Wells - Political communication, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This introduction to the special issue “Beyond Fake News: The Politics of Disinformation”
contains four main sections. In the first, we discuss the major sociopolitical factors that have …

Data as asset? The measurement, governance, and valuation of digital personal data by Big Tech

K Birch, DT Cochrane, C Ward - Big Data & Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Digital personal data is increasingly framed as the basis of contemporary economies,
representing an important new asset class. Control over these data assets seems to explain …