The politics of social filtering

Convergence

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 218-232

  Willson, Michele ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Code; Personalisation; Politics; SNS; Social filtering; Surveillance; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899537457     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354856513479761     Document Type: Article

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