2. Platform Genealogies [chapter]

2020 Digital Media Practices in Households  
In Chapter 2, "Platform genealogies," we consider the continuities and discontinuities around LINE, WeChat, Facebook and WhatsApp as a digital genealogy. We explore the particular histories and practices informing those platforms-what Gillespie (2015) calls "the politics of platforms" or Lamarre calls (2017) "platformativity"-and why they are being adopted intergenerationally. For example, the developed and quick uptake of LINE was in direct response to the way in which mobile social media
more » ... ed in and after the earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011 known as 3/11.
doi:10.1515/9789048542062-004 fatcat:mziixjo5i5gopcmt6mp3fuew2u