Platform genealogies

Larissa Hjorth, Kane Ohashi, Jolynna Sinanan, Heather Horst, Sarah Pink, Fumitoshi Kato, Baohua Zhou

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Abstract

In Chapter 2, “Platform genealogies,” we consider the continuities and discontinuities around LINE, WeChat, Facebook and WhatsApp as a digital genealogy. We explore the particular histories and practices informing those platforms—what Gillespie (2015) calls “the politics of platforms” or Lamarre calls (2017) “platformativity”—and why they are being adopted intergenerationally. For example, the developed and quick uptake of LINE was in direct response to the way in which mobile social media shifted in and after the earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011 known as 3/11.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDigital Media Practices in Households: Kinship through Data
EditorsLarissa Hjorth, Kana Ohashi, Jolynna Sinanan, Heather Horst, Sarah Pink, Fumitoshi Kato, Baohua Zhou
Place of PublicationAmsterdam
PublisherAmsterdam University Press
Pages43-60
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9789048542062
ISBN (Print)9789462989504
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

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