Platform affordances and data practices: The value of dispute on Wikipedia

Big Data and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Weltevrede, Esther ^a   Borra, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

affordances; controversy mapping; devices; Digital methods; platform studies; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017107461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20539517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2053951716653418     Document Type: Article

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