The Power of Platforms
Shaping Media and Society
Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 272
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
- EAN: 9780190908867
- Utgivelsesår: 2022
- Bidragsyter: Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis (Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Professor of Political Communication, Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Profess
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More people today get news via Facebook and Google than from any news organization in history, and smaller platforms like Twitter serve news to more users than all but the biggest media companies. In The Power of Platforms, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Sarah Anne Ganter draw on original interviews and other qualitative evidence to analyze the "platform power" that a few technology companies have come to exercise in public life, the reservations publishers haveabout platforms, as well as the reasons why publishers often embrace them nonetheless.Nielsen and Ganter trace how relations between publishers and platforms have evolved across the United States, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. They identify the new, distinct relational and generative forms of power that platforms exercise as people increasingly rely on them to find and access news. Most of the news content we rely on is still produced by journalists working for news organizations, but Nielsen and Ganter chronicle rapid chan