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2. Platform Genealogies
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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
doi:10.1515/9789048542062-004
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