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Alice E. Marwick

Alice E. Marwick is an assistant professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University and the director of the McGannon Center for Communication Research. She is the author of Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age (2013). icon

Open Markets, Open Projects: Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness

By Alice E. Marwick

A decade ago, the precursors of today’s social media were known as “Web 2.0,” and came complete with a barrage of ideological presuppositions. According to rhetoric pioneered at O’Reilly conferences ...

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