The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society

by Sarah Anne Ganter and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Book Overview

More people today get news via Facebook and Google than from any news organization in history, and smaller platforms like Twitter serve news to more users than all but the biggest media companies. In The Power of Platforms, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Sarah Anne Ganter draw on original interviews and other qualitative evidence to analyze the "platform power" that a few technology companies have come to exercise in public life, the reservations publishers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190908866
• ISBN13: 9780190908867
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"