Want to be on the top? Algorithmic power and the threat of invisibility on Facebook

New Media and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1164-1180

  Bucher, Taina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Algorithm; EdgeRank; Facebook; Foucault; Panopticon; subjectivity; visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867671787     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444812440159     Document Type: Article

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