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The power of platforms : shaping media and society

AUTOR: Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Sarah Anne Ganter
COTA: CO/1104-BC

EDITOR: Oxford University Press
ANO: 2022
RESUMO: More people today consume news via Facebook and Google than from any news organization in history. As a consequence the technology companies behind them exercise new distinct forms of platform power. In The Power of Platforms Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Sarah Anne Ganter draw on original interviews and other qualitative evidence from the United States France Germany and the United Kingdom to trace the development of the relationships between platforms andnews publishers. They analyze how technology companies exercise platform power how news organizations have responded and unfold the implications for news and our societies more broadly.