Facebook’s mobile career

@article{Goggin2014FacebooksMC,
  title={Facebook’s mobile career},
  author={Gerard Goggin},
  journal={New Media \& Society},
  year={2014},
  volume={16},
  pages={1068 - 1086}
}
  • G. Goggin
  • Published 21 July 2014
  • Business
  • New Media & Society
At the end of its first decade, Facebook’s identity, popularity and characteristics are shaped in important ways by its becoming a form of mobile media. This article seeks to explore and understand Facebook as the important force in mobile media and communication it now is. It draws upon and combines perspectives from technology production, design and economy, as well as user adoption, consumption, practices, affect, emotion and resistance. This article discusses the beginnings of mobile… 
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