Platform affordances and data practices: The value of dispute on Wikipedia

In this paper we introduce the device perspective as a methodological contribution to platform studies. Through an engagement with debates about the notion of affordances, which focus on the relation between the technical and the social, we put forward an approach to study the production of data wit...

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Main Authors: Esther Weltevrede, Erik Borra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-06-01
Series:Big Data & Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716653418