The like economy: Social buttons and the data-intensive web

By Carolin Gerlitz, Anne Helmond. New Media & Society, 2013

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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What is a flag for? Social media reporting tools and the vocabulary of complaint (2016, background): “They are, of course, part of a commonly available suite of tools that facilitate, compartmentalize, and quantify user feedback (Gerlitz and Helmond, 2013).”
Fake images: The effects of source, intermediary, and digital media literacy on contextual assessment of image credibility online (2018, background): “Information sharing and curating behaviors online, fueled by the prevalence of “social buttons” on social network sites and news media websites (Gerlitz and Helmond, 2013), foregrounds the importance of second-order sources, or intermediaries , that share or endorse information published originally…”
The platformization of cultural production: Theorizing the contingent cultural commodity (2018, background): “Prominent examples of such services are Facebook Login, its “social” plugins (Gerlitz and Helmond, 2013), as well as payment systems, advertising technology and various kinds of data analytics.”
Platformisation (2019, background): “Such behavioural data collection is afforded by still expanding platform infrastructures in the form of apps, plugins, active and passive sensors, and trackers (Gerlitz & Helmond, 2013; Nieborg & Helmond, 2019).”
The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data Platform Ready (2015, neutral): “That is, platforms enact their programmability to decentralize data production and recentralize data collection (Gerlitz & Helmond, 2013).”
The Affordances of Social Media Platforms (2018, background): “20 Moreover, Twitter collects data from people engaging within the wider ‘Twitter ecosystem’ (Twitter Help Center, n.d.), by tracking end-users and non-Twitter users across the web via platform functionality such as Twitter buttons on external websites and apps (cf. Gerlitz and Helmond, 2013).”
Sharing the moment as small stories (2019, background): “In addition, the mediation of communication by platform design is recognized as economically motivated and shaped by strong links with advertising (Gerlitz & Helmond 2013).”
What’s in a post? How sentiment and issue salience affect users’ emotional reactions on Facebook (2020, background): “…the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. rather loosely used “Like” button did not (see Gerlitz & Helmond, 2013).2 While this feature is useful for Facebook users who want to publicly interact with other users’ and political actors’…”
Machine Vision and Social Media Images: Why Hashtags Matter (2020, background): “Such buttons serve the commercial interests of platforms, but also pre-structure feelings and enable possibilities of expressing affective engagement with web content, while measuring and aggregating those responses (Gerlitz & Helmond, 2013).”