" Carefully distinguishing between big data and open data, and exploring various data
infrastructures, Kitchin vividly illustrates how the data landscape is rapidly changing and …

This paper presents the methods and outcomes of a typological analysis of W eb 2.0
technologies. A comprehensive review incorporating over 2000 links led to identification of …

In this article, I inquire into Facebook's development as a platform by situating it within the
transformation of social network sites into social media platforms. I explore this shift with a …

This is a fully revised edition of the groundbreaking study on tourism, which was originally
published in 1990. The original chapters have been empirically updated and many new …

This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of
interdisciplinary debates about new ways of knowing society that are emerging today at the …

This article deals with the rise of prosumer capitalism. Prosumption involves both production
and consumption rather than focusing on either one (production) or the other (consumption) …

Today's consumers have unprecedented choice in terms of the technologies and platforms
that access, produce, and distribute media content. The development and overlap of …

Whilst recent studies suggest that over 95% of British undergraduate students are regularly
using social networking sites, we still know very little about how this phenomenon impacts …

We argue that social media are not only new communication channels in migration
networks, but also that they actively transform the nature of these networks and thereby …

This essay provides an introduction to prosumption, the topic of this special double issue of
American Behavioral Scientist. The term prosumption was coined by Alvin Toffler in 1980 …