TY - BOOK AU - Nielsen,Rasmus Kleis AU - Ganter,Sarah Anne TI - The power of platforms: shaping media and society T2 - Oxford studies in digital politics SN - 9780190908867 AV - HM846 .N54 2022 U1 - 303.483 KLE 2022 23/eng/20220114 PY - 2022///] CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Technology KW - Sociological aspects KW - Social media and society KW - Information technology KW - Psychological aspects KW - Social aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "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"-- ER -