The Power Of Platforms: Shaping Media And Society (Oxford Studies In Digital Politics)

This chapter focuses on how the rise of platforms is changing our media environment, where publishers still control the production of news content, but platform companies increasingly control the channels through which people access it. It identifies the new, distinct, generative and relational forms of power that platforms including Facebook, Google, and Twitter exercise and examines how news publishers have responded. It argues that previously powerful and relatively independent institutions like the news media are increasingly in a position akin to that of ordinary users-they are simultaneously increasingly empowered by and dependent upon a small number of powerful platforms--

• | Author: Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Professor of Political Communication Rasmus Kleis Nielsen|Rasmus Kleis Nielsen|Assistant Professor of Communication and Cultural Policy Sarah Anne Ganter|Sarah Anne Ganter
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: May 13, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0190908866
• | ISBN-13: 9780190908867