The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data Platform Ready

Social Media and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Helmond, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Application Programming Interfaces; Facebook; platforms; social media; social network sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994280753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20563051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2056305115603080     Document Type: Article

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