The like economy: Social buttons and the data-intensive web

New Media and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1348-1365

  Gerlitz, Carolin ^a   Helmond, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Digital methods; fabric of the web; Facebook; Like economy; medium specificity; platform studies; social buttons; social web; software studies; web analytics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886236607     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444812472322     Document Type: Article

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