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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marcelo Santos, Antoine Faure
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-08-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118795876