Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Napoli, Philip M.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]

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Details

Description

xii, 282 pages; 24 cm

Summary

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

• Social media and journalism
• Web usage mining in journalism
• Social media
• Information
• Öffentliches Interesse
• Regulierung
• Social Media

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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

JFE 20-212

ISBN

• 9780231184540
• 0231184549

LCCN

• 2019008051
• 40029360556

OCLC

1064770421

Author

Napoli, Philip M., author.

Title

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

Publisher

New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

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

Other Standard Identifier

40029360556

Research Call Number

JFE 20-212