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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Main Authors: P Maxigas, Guillaume Latzko-Toth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society 2020-10-01
Series:Internet Policy Review
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Online Access:https://policyreview.info/node/1517
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