Facebook.com text: Industrialising personal data production

Authors

  • Korinna Patelis Cyprus University of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v18i3.4615

Abstract

This article examines Facebook.com as a cultural text. It casts a critical eye on the stories told by the Facebook monopoly interphase, focusing on how these intergrate commerce with communications. It struggles with the text’s key abstractions arguing that Facebook industrialises personalised data production by demanding the constant production on customised communcation objects.

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Published

2013-03-11

How to Cite

Patelis, K. (2013). Facebook.com text: Industrialising personal data production. First Monday, 18(3). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v18i3.4615