Social media and self-evaluating assemblages: On numbers, orderings and values

Distinktion

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 174-188

  Gerlitz, Carolin ^a   Lury, Celia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assemblage; Ordering; Participation; Rankings; Social media metrics; Value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920929471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21599149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1600910X.2014.920267     Document Type: Article

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