Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News,Schiffrin, Anya

-About this book

Who controls the media today?

There are many media systems across the globe that claim to be free yet whose independence has been eroded. As demagogues rise, independent voices have been squeezed out. Corporate-owned media companies that act in the service of power increasingly exercise soft censorship. Tech giants such as Facebook and Google have dramatically changed how people access information, with consequences that are only beginning to be felt.
This book features pathbreaking analysis from journalists and academics of the changing nature and peril of media capture―how formerly independent institutions fall under the sway of governments, plutocrats, and corporations. Contributors including Emily Bell, Felix Salmon, Joshua Marshall, Joel Simon, and Nikki Usher analyze diverse cases of media capture worldwide―from the United Kingdom to Turkey to India and beyond―many drawn from firsthand experience.

They examine the role played by new media companies and funders, showing how the confluence of the growth of big tech and falling revenues for legacy media has led to new forms of control. Contributions also shed light on how the rise of right-wing populists has catalyzed the crisis of global media.

They also chart a way forward, exploring the growing need for a policy response and sustainable models for public-interest investigative journalism. Providing valuable insight into today’s urgent threats to media independence, Media Capture is essential reading for anyone concerned with defending press freedom in the digital age.

-CONTENTS

Part I. Overview
Introduction
ANYA SCHIFFRIN 3
Chapter One
How Silicon Valley Copied Wall Street’s Media Capture Playbook
RANA FOROOHAR 23
Chapter Two
From Media Capture to Platform Capture
NIKKI USHER 30
Chapter Three
Media Capture and the Crisis in Local Journalism
PHILIP M. NAPOLI 46
Chapter Four
Nobody Home
NOAM COHEN 67
Part II. Examples of Problems
Chapter Five
A Serf on Google’s Farm
JOSH MARSHALL 83
Chapter Six
The Rise and Fall of Blogging in the 2000s
FELIX SALMON 92
Chapter Seven
Digital Payola: Policing the Open Contributor Network
JAMES LEDBETTER 104
Chapter Eight
Media Capture and the Corporate Education- Reform Philanthropies
ANDREA GABOR 117
Chapter Nine
Using Old Media to Capture New in Turkey
ANDREW FINKEL 141
Chapter Ten
A Loud Silence
RAJU NARISETTI 160
Chapter Eleven
The Capture of Britain’s Feral Beast
MARY FITZGERALD, JAMES CUSICK, AND PETER GEOGHEGAN 188
Part III. Solutions
Chapter Twelve
A Global Strategy for Combating Media Capture
MARK M. NELSON 213

Chapter Thirteen
The Hamster Wheel, Triumphant: Commercial Models for
Journalism Are Not Working; Let’s Try Something Else
DEAN STARKMAN AND RYAN CHITTUM 232
Chapter Fourteen
Building Trust (and a Trust)
ANDREW SULLIVAN 259
Chapter Fifteen
Defending Vanguard Journalists
JOEL SIMON 277
Chapter Sixteen
Do Technology Companies Care About Journalism?
EMILY BELL 291
LIST OF C ONTRIBUTORS 297
INDEX 301

–  Caractéristiques

Date de parution:22 juin 2021

Éditeur ‏ : ‎ Columbia University Press  

Langue ‏ : ‎ Anglais

NB.de pages‏ : ‎ 328 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0231188838

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0231188838

Poids de l’article ‏ : ‎ 454 g

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.01 x 2.21 x 22.61 cm