The archive and the processor: The internal logic of Web 2.0

New Media and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1228-1244

  Gehl, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon Mechanical Turk; archives; Digg; Facebook; labor; processing; storage; the Von Neumann Architecture; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 83055168317     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444811401735     Document Type: Article

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