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‘Re-appropriating’ Facebook?: Web API mashups as Collective Cultural Practice

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dc.creatorWerning, Stefan
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-10T10:06:56Z
dc.date.available2020-03-10T10:06:56Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractIn contemporary debates about socio-technical implications of software, the platform metaphor, the corresponding notions of architectures and ecosystems as well as the formatting of data to afford ‘platformization’ play a central role. This approach has certainly proven fruitful to assess the role of companies like Facebook in contemporary society. However, it characteristically overlooks the messiness of actual usage practices and those studies that do acknowledge the internal power struggles that subcutaneously shape platforms often take a top-down perspective, disregarding bottom-up processes of (re-)appropriation. To address this gap, the article outlines a method to study how users and semi-professional developers collectively frame the cultural imaginary of a platform by conducting a thoroughly comparative content analysis of mashups created using the Facebook Web API. The affordances of many individual mashups might be considered marginal; yet, the tool-assistant comparison allows for inferring common patterns of interpretation that characterize mashup creation as a mobile digital practice, which plays a key role in social media platform development.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/13521
dc.identifier.urihttp://digicults.org/files/2019/11/dcs-2017-0211.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/14447
dc.languageeng
dc.publishertranscript
dc.publisher.placeBielefeld
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2364-2114
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDigital Culture & Society
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectAPIen
dc.subjectapplication programming interfaceen
dc.subjectcultural practicesen
dc.subjectsocial networken
dc.subjectProgrammierschnittstellede
dc.subjectFacebookde
dc.subjectkulturelle Praxisde
dc.subjectSoziales Netzwerkde
dc.subjectMashupde
dc.subjectRemixingde
dc.subject.ddcddc:006
dc.subject.ddcddc:302
dc.title‘Re-appropriating’ Facebook?: Web API mashups as Collective Cultural Practiceen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T02:32:18
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://digicults.org/files/2019/11/dcs-2017-0211.pdf
local.source.epage204
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleMobile Digital Practices
local.source.spage183
local.source.volume3
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/7679337-0
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q355

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