Trusted commons: why ‘old’ social media matter
This paper looks at contemporary uses of an “old” social media – Internet Relay Chat (IRC) – and shows how they constitute a form of resistance to and a social critique of mainstream social media platforms. By examining IRC uses within three social worlds of peer production (free software developmen...
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| Language: | English |
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Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
2020-10-01
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| Series: | Internet Policy Review |
| Online Access: | https://policyreview.info/node/1517 |