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Dokument Type: | Book | metadata.dc.title: | The technicity of platform governance: structure and evolution of Facebook’s APIs | Authors: | van der Vlist, Fernando Helmond, Anne Burkhardt, Marcus Seitz, Tatjana |
Institute: | DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 1187 "Medien der Kooperation" | Free keywords: | APIs, platform governance, platform evolution, platform power, data strategy, Facebook | Dewey Decimal Classification: | 302.23 Medien (Kommunikationsmittel), Medienwissenschaft | GHBS-Clases: | KNZT KNZO |
Issue Date: | 2021 | Publish Date: | 2021 | Series/Report no.: | Working paper series / SFB 1187 Medien der Kooperation | Abstract: | Researchers, policymakers, and competition and regulation authorities worldwide recognise application pro- gramming interfaces (APIs) for powering the digital economy and driving processes of datafication and platformisation. However, it is unclear how APIs tie into the power of, and gov- ernance by, large digital platforms. This article traces the rela- tionality between Facebook’s APIs, platform governance, and data strategy based on an empirical and evolutionary analy- sis. It examines a large corpus of (archived) developer pages and API reference documentation to determine the technicity of platform governance – the technical dimension and dynam- ics of how and what platforms like Facebook seek to govern. It traces how Facebook Platform evolved into a complex layered and interconnected governance arrangement, wherein techni- cal API specifications serve to enforce (changes to) platform policy and (data) strategy. Finally, the article discusses the significance of this technicity in specifying the material condi- tions for app and business development ‘on top of’ platforms and for maintaining infrastructural and evolutive power over their ecosystems. |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/9951 | URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:467-19380 | URI: | https://dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ubsi/1938 |
Appears in Collections: | Publikationen aus der Universität Siegen |
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