API Governance: The Case of Facebook’s Evolution

Vlist, Fernando van der; Helmond, Anne; Burkhardt, Marcus; Seitz, Tatjana

doi:10.1177/20563051221086228

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“…While this appears to be a similar product, research on the experience of LGBTQ+ users reveals a key insight about the nature of the platform: Vine was governed as an extension of Twitter, and Twitter at the time had uncontrolled hateful reactionary content (Duguay et al, 2020). This turn toward platform governance, and infrastructural elements, is broadly recognized as a key element in understanding platforms in society (van der Vlist et al, 2022). In this sense, the core governance of YouTube is to produce a binge watch (one show or creator along a trajectory) and Vine was a looped video of the toxic vibes of Twitter.…”

Section: A Methodology For Individual Automated Flowsmentioning

confidence: 99%

TikTok as Television

Faltesek,

Graalum,

Breving

et al. 2023

Social Media + Society

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As much as users and advertisers have flocked to it, TikTok has been a success. To this point, research on TikTok has been concerned with the nature of TikTok texts and the ways that laterally organized networks on TikTok have intermedia interface points. Instead of focusing on the text or the authors, this article argues that Raymond Williams concept of flow is critical for an initial characterization of a social media platform, proposing and implementing a Markov process model for critical media studies of the experience of TikTok flow. The result of this analysis challenges many commonly held ideas about what TikTok “is” and offers evidence that TikTok is television, not social media. We argue that this shift of perspective is important for advancing understanding of this platform.

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Section: A Methodology For Individual Automated Flowsmentioning

confidence: 99%

TikTok as Television

Faltesek,

Graalum,

Breving

et al. 2023

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“…Facebook helps to facilitate governance in complex societies (Rantasila, 2022;Van der Vlist et al, 2022).…”

Section: Governancementioning

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Unlocking the Potential of Facebook as a Versatile Platform for Knowledge Sharing

Enwereji,

Van Rooyen,

Morgan

2024

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Social network sites, most notably Facebook, have fundamentally transformed the way information is transferred, received, and shared by individuals and organisations. This article explores the diverse contexts in which Facebook is utilised as a knowledge-sharing instrument, along with the key challenges encountered in adopting Facebook as a knowledge-sharing instrument. It also indicates the gaps in adopting Facebook as a knowledge-sharing instrument. In a systematic literature review, 400 articles accomplishing the research objectives were identified. The findings revealed that Facebook can be used in different contexts. Greater awareness of Facebook’s versatility as a platform for knowledge sharing across various domains is recommended. This article also advises that the challenges related to cost, time investment and technical expertise be addressed, and emphasises the need for education and training.

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“…This quote echoes Helmond’s (2015) focus on the centrality of APIs for ‘making web data platform ready’. Empirically tracing the different ways in which governments procure AI services may help uncover how different manifestations of ‘API governance’ (Van der Vilst et al, 2022), such as pertaining to the procurement of military AI tools or advanced surveillance systems, shape the formation of AI’s regulatory geographies within and beyond the EU.…”

Section: Case Study: the Eu’s Ai Act And State Roles In Platform Gove...mentioning

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State roles in platform governance: AI’s regulatory geographies

Ferrari

2023

Competition & Change

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Platform governance scholarship commonly derives the role of the state from its actions as a regulator of platforms: a rule-setter that sets limits and restricts their activities. This article argues that three additional state roles enable and constrain the agency of states to regulate platforms: facilitator, buyer, and producer. Using the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act as a case study, the article asks: How do different state roles in platform governance shape AI’s regulatory geographies? It answers this research question by outlining two policy dilemmas between those four state roles. First, the EU’s ambition to act as a facilitator of digital markets constrains its scope of interventions as a regulator of platforms. Second, the EU’s deficits in acting as a producer of AI infrastructure exacerbate its dependency as a buyer of Big Tech offerings, especially cloud computing services. The article contends that dilemmas between state roles are not anomalies but defining features of state-platform relations. As generative AI systems gain sophistication, an understanding of how state roles relate to each other helps to navigate their complex governance regimes.

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API Governance: The Case of Facebook’s Evolution

Cited by 12 publications

References 55 publications

TikTok as Television

TikTok as Television

Unlocking the Potential of Facebook as a Versatile Platform for Knowledge Sharing

State roles in platform governance: AI’s regulatory geographies

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