Affordance is Power: Contradictions Between Communicational and Technical Dimensions of WhatsApp’s End-to-End Encryption
WhatsApp’s implementation of end-to-end encryption has been celebrated by many. Intriguingly, though, the invisible affordance was made visible with an individual message to each conversation. In this research, we “properly scrutinize” the roll-out of the affordance in historical perspective inspire...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2018-08-01
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Series: | Social Media + Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118795876 |