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Reverse Engineering Social Media : Software, Culture, and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism /

"Robert Gehl's timely critique, Reverse Engineering Social Media, rigorously analyzes the ideas of social media and software engineers, using these ideas to find contradictions and fissures beneath the surfaces of glossy sites such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter. Gehl adeptly uses a mix...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gehl, Robert W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Looking forward and backward: heterogeneous engineering of social media software
  • The computerized socialbot Turing Test: noopower and the social media state(s) of mind
  • The archive and the processor: the internal hardware logic of social media
  • Architecture and implementation: engineering real (software) abstractions in social media
  • Standardizing social media: technical standards, the interactive advertising bureau, and the rise of social media templates
  • Engineering a class for itself: the case of Wikipedia's Spanish Fork labor strike
  • A manifesto for socialized media.