RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Free software meets Facebook: Placing digital platforms’ usage by free culture communities
A1 Calvo Miguel, Dafne
K1 Digital communication
K1 Informational capitalism
K1 Political economy
K1 Information ecology
K1 Technopolitics
K1 Social movements
K1 Free culture
K1 Digital activism
K1 Free software
K1 Digital plataforms
K1 5902.04 Política de Comunicaciones
K1 6308 Comunicaciones Sociales
AB The use of digital platforms in social movements has given the Internet a central role in analyzing activism over the last decade. However, social networks’ potential for social change has to be analyzed critically and take complex economic and political contexts where actors remain unequally powerful into consideration. Through a combined methodology, this article explores the tensions of free culture communities in Spain when using proprietary digital platforms. These communities include 1651 platforms, of which 1162 are proprietary, and 489 are free. They describe a complex ecology in which they use proprietary platforms or free alternatives depending on their ultimate goals. The logic of technological corporations is notably imposed when communities aim to communicate with outsiders as commercial social networks attract a significantly greater number of users.
PB Sage Journals
SN 1461-7315
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/66465
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/66465
LA eng
NO New Media & Society, 24(5), 1076-1096.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 19-may-2024