Digital communication and agency: Unseen infrastructures that influence our communicative capacities online.
The recent Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which personally distinguishable information was collected without explicit permission from millions of Facebook users, once more brought into focus the potential dangers of our now-pervasive social media use. What the scandal primarily indicates is the uns...
| Publicado en: | Communicare Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 118 - 136 |
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Communicare, Journal for Communication Sciences in South Africa
Jul2018
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