Invisible actors
This article focuses on the role web application programming interfaces (APIs) play in the television (TV) industry’s social media efforts. Web APIs are coding interfaces that allow different databases of information to communicate with one another. The widespread implementation of web APIs as a sta...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/1354856516641915 2023-05-15T18:31:41+02:00 Invisible actors Web application programming interfaces, television, and social media Lahey, Michael 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856516641915 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1354856516641915 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/1354856516641915 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies volume 22, issue 4, page 426-439 ISSN 1354-8565 1748-7382 Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Communication journal-article 2016 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856516641915 2022-05-26T08:14:12Z This article focuses on the role web application programming interfaces (APIs) play in the television (TV) industry’s social media efforts. Web APIs are coding interfaces that allow different databases of information to communicate with one another. The widespread implementation of web APIs as a standard for information sharing offers a way for TV companies to more easily cobble together a presence in connected viewing environments. In this light, web API acts as, what Joshua Braun calls, ‘transparent intermediaries’ that actively shape the range of possibilities available in these types of intermedial partnerships. I explain web APIs before showing how they relate to media studies through the TV show Psych’s forays into designing social media experiences. Additionally, I will explain how web API-connected digital environments are used to facilitate what Tiziana Terranova calls soft control as web APIs embody Web 2.0 ideologies that celebrate information sharing between businesses that track audience attention. Article in Journal/Newspaper Terranova SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 22 4 426 439 |
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This article focuses on the role web application programming interfaces (APIs) play in the television (TV) industry’s social media efforts. Web APIs are coding interfaces that allow different databases of information to communicate with one another. The widespread implementation of web APIs as a standard for information sharing offers a way for TV companies to more easily cobble together a presence in connected viewing environments. In this light, web API acts as, what Joshua Braun calls, ‘transparent intermediaries’ that actively shape the range of possibilities available in these types of intermedial partnerships. I explain web APIs before showing how they relate to media studies through the TV show Psych’s forays into designing social media experiences. Additionally, I will explain how web API-connected digital environments are used to facilitate what Tiziana Terranova calls soft control as web APIs embody Web 2.0 ideologies that celebrate information sharing between businesses that track audience attention. |
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