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From Social Networks to Publishing Platforms: A Review of the History and Scholarship of Academic Social Network Sites
2019
Frontiers in Digital Humanities
Social network sites enable people to easily connect to and communicate with others. Following the success of generic platforms such as Facebook, a variety of online services launched during the mid 2000s in order to bring the benefits of online social networking to an academic audience. However, it is not clear whether these academic social network sites (ASNS) are primarily aligned with social networking or alternative publishing, and functionalities continue to change. Now 10 years since the
doi:10.3389/fdigh.2019.00005
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