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Everything about Facebook Platform
Application platform accessing Facebook's social network
The Facebook Platform is the set of services, tools, and products provided by the social networking service Facebook for third-party developers to create their own applications and services that access data in Facebook. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Facebook PlatformA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Platform affordances, discursive opportunities, and social media activism: A cross-platform analysis of #MeToo on Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, 2017–2020Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Journalism and Use of Social MediaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and FacebookCited 1,222 times
- Go sideways: Facebook F8A closely related topic
- Go sideways: OpenSocialA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook
Platform Civics: Facebook in the Local Information Infrastructure
Facebook as learning platform: Argumentation superhighway or dead-end street?
Places nearby: Facebook as a location-based social media platform
Facebook Discussion Groups Provide a Robust Worldwide Platform for Free Pathology Education
Digital Labour in the Platform Economy: The Case of Facebook
Facebook as a platform for co-creating music festival experiences
Domesticating Facebook: The Shift From Compulsive Connection to Personal Service Platform
🆕 Influential since 2022
Platform affordances, discursive opportunities, and social media activism: A cross-platform analysis of #MeToo on Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, 2017–2020
How Negative Media Coverage Impacts Platform Governance: Evidence from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube
Online medical education using a Facebook peer-to-peer learning platform during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study exploring learner and tutor acceptability of Facebook as a learning platform
Investigation of Attributes Influencing the Attractiveness of Mobile Commerce Advertisements on the Facebook Platform
A cross-platform recommendation system from Facebook to Instagram
📚 Books worth reading
Journalism and Use of Social MediaAnzer Ayoob · 2023
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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