The development of online participatory cultures: from baseball analytics to covid conspiracy.
This paper explores online participatory culture from the early 1990s to the present, highlighting three trends that exemplify its development and eventual co-option by corporate and political movements. In the 1990s, a participatory culture around baseball analytics emerged online, characterized by...
| Publicado en: | Atlantic Journal of Communication Vol. 32; no. 5; pp. 827 - 844 |
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Nov/Dec2024
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