Facebook's usage has reached a point that the platform's infrastructural ambitions are to be
taken very seriously. To understand the company's evolution in the age of mobile media, we …

The purpose of this article is to operationalise an evolutionary perspective on the history of
social media and to trace Facebook's evolution from a social networking site to a “platform …

In this article, we explore the long-term preservation implications of application programming
interfaces (APIs) which govern access to data extracted from social media platforms. We …

Large amounts of personal data are generated through young people's engagements with
mobile media, with these data increasingly (re) used by advertisers, content developers and …

The rapid expansion of social media has led to the concentration of digitized, networked,
and mediated processes into the hands of a few giant corporations (eg Google, Facebook …

Tech companies that rely on ads for business argue that users have control over their data
via ad privacy settings. However, these ad settings are often hidden. This work aims to …

The aim of this article is to provide an exploratory analysis of the landscape of web archiving
activities in Europe. Our contribution, based on desk research, and complemented with data …

In this article we engage with methodological challenges that apps pose for empirical
analysis and develop an approach to study how apps operate and exchange data between …

This article questions the utility and universality of the attention economy framework in social
media studies, specifically as a critique for dominant industry players such as Facebook. The …

Wanghong refers to a particular stream of vocational Chinese internet celebrities that have
acquired their celebrity online and have acute incentives through various models to liquidate …