Platform Power. An Epochal Debate Over the Value of Content: Tracing Google's Relations with Publishers -- "Inextricably Intertwined"? Publishers Dealing with Platforms -- "Our futures are tied together": Platforms Dealing with Publishers -- Platform Power.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.