The power of platforms : shaping media and society /
Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis, 1980-
The power of platforms : shaping media and society / Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Sarah Anne Ganter. - x, 261 pages ; 23 cm. - Oxford studies in digital politics .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"--
9780190908867 9780190908850
2021057802
Technology--Sociological aspects.
Social media and society.
Information technology--Psychological aspects.
Information technology--Social aspects.
HM846 / .N54 2022
303.483 KLE 2022
The power of platforms : shaping media and society / Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Sarah Anne Ganter. - x, 261 pages ; 23 cm. - Oxford studies in digital politics .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"--
9780190908867 9780190908850
2021057802
Technology--Sociological aspects.
Social media and society.
Information technology--Psychological aspects.
Information technology--Social aspects.
HM846 / .N54 2022
303.483 KLE 2022