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The platformisation of software development: Connective coding and platform vernaculars on GitHub 软件开发的平台化：GitHub 上的连接编码和平台语言

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 DOI: 10.1177/13548565231205867

Liliana Bounegru

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Workers’ right to the subject: The social relations of data production 工人的主体权利：数据生产的社会关系

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Pub Date : 2023-11-17 DOI: 10.1177/13548565231199971

Phoebe V Moore

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Salad Fingers: Pre-YouTube digital uncanny and the ‘weird’ future of animation 沙拉手指YouTube之前的数字不可思议和动画的 "怪异 "未来

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Pub Date : 2023-11-15 DOI: 10.1177/13548565231208569

J. Balanzategui, C. Albarrán-Torres

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