The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media

By J. Dijck. 2013

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Algorithmic Cultures : Essays on Meaning, Performance and New Technologies (2016, background): “…(McChesney 2015; Jenkins 2006; Havens, Lotz, and Tinic 2009), and how social media platforms increasingly play that role (Gillespie 2010; van Dijck 2013; Burgess and Green 2013, Vaidhyanathan; Sandvig 2015, Napoli 2015); the dynamics of cultural production that shape content (Peterson and…”
New games, new rules: big data and the changing context of strategy (2015, background): “Similarly, affinities between individuals, worked out through aggregation and computing capacity, enable the development and enactment of local or contextualized social relationships that would have otherwise not been possible (Van Dijck, 2013).”
Detection and Resolution of Rumours in Social Media (2017, background): “APIs are easy-to-use interfaces that are usually accompanied by documentation that describes how to request the data that one is interested in.”
Share, like, twitter, and connect: Ecological momentary assessment to examine the relationship between non-work social media use at work and work engagement (2018, background): “…colleagues, chatting with family members, watching a neighbour’s home video, or © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group CONTACT Christine J. Syrek syrek@uni-trier.de sending a message to a sick friend while sitting at one’s work computer, appearing industrious (Van Dijk, 2013).”
An Evaluation of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, Its Rapid Rise, and Its Effective Use (2018, background): “…social misfits were empirically dispelled (Gosling, Vazire, Sriv-astava, & John, 2004), companies such as Millisecond and Qualtrics began to offer increasingly sophisticated methodological tools online, and an increasing proportion of human behavior began to take place online (Van Dijck, 2013).”
'You have one identity': performing the self on Facebook and LinkedIn (2013, background): “After 2008, most corporate site owners shifted their focus from running community-oriented platforms to monetizing connectivity by maximizing lucrative data traffic between people, things and ideas (Van Dijck, 2013).”
Datafication, dataism and dataveillance: Big Data between scientific paradigm and ideology (2014, positive): “Snowden’s disclosures have been more than a wakeup call for citizens who have gradually come to accept the “sharing” of personal information—everything from marital status to colds, and from eating habits to favorite music—via social network sites or apps as the new norm (van Dijck 2013a).”
Dressing up Tinderella: interrogating authenticity claims on the mobile dating app Tinder (2016, background): “It analyses what Van Dijck (2013) identifies as techno-cultural constructs – technology, content, and users – as well as socio-economic structures of ownership, governance, and business models.”
#Gamergate and The Fappening: How Reddit’s algorithm, governance, and culture support toxic technocultures (2017, methodology): “In this article, I examine how the platform and algorithmic politics (Bucher, 2012; Gillespie, 2010; Van Dijck, 2013) of Reddit.com provides fertile ground for these kinds of toxic spaces to emerge.”
Health promotion in the digital era: a critical commentary. (2015, background): “As digital data become increasingly commodified and commercialized , new forms of surveillance and social inequalities are developing that go beyond concepts of the digital divide (Best, 2010; Franklin, 2013; Mann and Ferenbok, 2013; Van Dijck, 2013; Fuchs, 2014; Lupton, 2015).”
Platform capitalism: the intermediation and capitalization of digital economic circulation (2017, neutral): “We do not contribute here to the debate over the capitalist/post-capitalist character of digital economic circulation that typically collapses into ‘the users-versus-owners standoff’ (van Dijck, 2013: 18; see, for example, Kostakis and Bauwens, 2014; Mason, 2015 ).”
The walkthrough method: An approach to the study of apps (2018, background): “Since many apps allow access to services in exchange for personal data that can be sold to advertisers and data miners (van Dijck, 2013), revenue generation may not involve monetary exchange.”
Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook (2018, background): “…defines platforms as a “set of relations that constantly needs to be performed,” in part due to continual friction between, on one side, users’ goals of expression and, on the other side, platforms’ profit-seeking aims and the legal surround that defines legitimate use (van Dijck, 2013: 26).”
Terms of inclusion: Data, discourse, violence (2020, background): “…states regularly consult data created and maintained by private Internet companies (Andrejevic, 2019), while those same companies often leverage public or liberal rhetoric—like freedom of speech—in an effort to gain credibility and, in some cases, stave off government regulation (Van Dijck, 2013).”