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Description

1. xii, 282 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. Facebook, a platform created by undergraduates in a Harvard dorm room, has transformed the ways millions of people consume news, understand the world, and participate in the political process. Despite taking on many of journalism's traditional roles, Facebook and other platforms, such as Twitter and Google, have presented themselves as tech companies - and therefore not subject to the same regulations and ethical codes as conventional media organizations. In contrast to tech companies' boasts of disruptive innovation, Philip M. Napoli offers a timely and persuasive case for seeing social media as news media, with a fundamental obligation to serve the public interest. Social Media and the Public Interest explores how and why social-media platforms became so central to news consumption and distribution as they met many of the challenges of finding information - and audiences - online. Napoli illustrates the implications of a system in which coders and engineers drive out journalists and editors as the gatekeepers who determine media content. He argues that a social-media-driven news ecosystem represents a case of market failure in what he calls the algorithmic marketplace of ideas. To respond, we need to rethink fundamental elements of media governance based on a revitalized concept of the public interest. A compelling examination of the intersection of social media and journalism, Social Media and the Public Interest offers valuable insights for the democratic governance of today's most influential shapers of news.

Subject

1. Social media
2. Öffentliches Interesse
3. Social Media
4. Web usage mining in journalism
5. Regulierung
6. Information
7. Social media and journalism

Contents

1. The taming of the web and the rise of algorithmic news -- Algorithmic gatekeeping and the transformation of news organizations -- The First Amendment, fake news, and filter bubbles -- The structure of the algorithmic marketplace of ideas -- The public-interest principle in media governance: past and present -- Reviving the public interest -- Conclusion.

Call number

1. JFE 20-212

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Napoli, Philip M., author.

Title

1. Social media and the public interest : media regulation in the disinformation age / Philip M. Napoli.

Publisher

1. New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other form:

1. Online version: Napoli, Philip M., author. Social media and the public interest New York : Columbia University Press, 2019 9780231545549 (DLC) 2019021836

LCCN

1. 2019008051

Other standard identifier

1. 40029360556

ISBN

1. 9780231184540 hardcover alkaline paper
2. 0231184549 hardcover alkaline paper

Research call number

1. JFE 20-212