{"id":221,"date":"2014-02-21T10:44:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T10:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/?p=221"},"modified":"2023-06-01T20:59:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T20:59:54","slug":"whatsapp-article-in-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/whatsapp-article-in-the-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook buys WhatsApp &#8211; Business as Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-222\" src=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/whatsapp-150x104.jpg\" alt=\"whatsapp\" width=\"150\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/whatsapp-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/whatsapp-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/whatsapp.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>David published an article, in February 2014, in The Conversation, in response to the purchase, by Facebook, of the instant messenger, WhatsApp. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/whatsapp-even-private-chatter-now-exploited-by-billionaires-23550\">The full article is here<\/a>. \u00a0The article was also posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.salford.ac.uk\/business-school\/whatsapp-even-private-chatter-now-exploited-billionaires\/\">Salford Business School Blog<\/a>, and generated an interesting response from a postgraduate student, to which David then also <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.salford.ac.uk\/business-school\/whatsapp-even-private-chatter-now-exploited-billionaires\/\">posted a reply<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David published an article, in February 2014, in The Conversation, in response to the purchase, by Facebook, of the instant messenger, WhatsApp. \u00a0The full article is here. \u00a0The article was also posted on the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}