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Radical changes in how we communicate with each other and the ease of manipulating audiences have put our shared principles of free speech at risk. But have Americans lost their […]
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This report details the coordinated effort to discredit independent, private-citizen researchers and counter-disinformation initiatives, attempts to falsely label them as government censors, and the negative impacts these efforts have had […]
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This chapter adopts a comparative approach to examine the techlash and its aftermath. It begins by identifying major themes in the hearings between global governments and Facebook in 2018 and […]
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The relatively short relationship between digital platforms and the news media has been characterized by constant evolution and conflict. As the economics of journalism have faltered and digital platforms have […]
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This chapter offers an account of how alcohol marketers have used social media platforms over the past fifteen years, and argues that understanding the engineering, operation and consequences of platforms’ […]
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As commercial journalism collapses around the world, the platforms’ culpability for defunding news media has attracted increasing scrutiny. Journalism’s sustainability is increasingly threatened by the Facebook and Google duopoly, which […]
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A relatively small number of global Internet giants—Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and Netflix—have come under intense and ongoing fire for precipitating a twin crisis of journalism and the media, […]
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There are rapidly growing concerns worldwide about the impact of content aggregation and distribution through digital platforms on traditional media industries and society in general. These have given rise to […]
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In recent years, researchers have scrutinised the power of digital platforms in the news industry. However, while digital platforms are powerful actors, there is a tendency to emphasise this power […]
