Facebook: Corporate hackers, a billion users, and the geo-politics of the "social graph";O Facebook: Os "hackers" Corporatistas, Um Bilhão de Utentes, e a Geo-Política do "Matriz Social"

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 927-955

  Fattal, Alex ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate culture; Facebook; Media politics; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865831530     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: 15341518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2012.0051     Document Type: Article

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