Media policy + platforms + political economy | Assistant Professor @MurrowCollege | Philly expat | Affiliate @MIC_Center @unc_citap
Pullman, WA
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🚨🚨Check out my new piece with Krishna Vasudevan, tracing how frictions within platform capitalism illuminate the shifting shapes of actually existing platformization AND introducing fantastic studies that constitute our @icsjournal SI on the subject 🔥
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OK last one. RIP Bezos's Readiness to Stand up Against Political Pressure - 2013-2024. You left us too young.
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Some great research I'm happy to be part of @MurrowCollege that's pushing the envelope methodologically and aiming to make a significant impact on the policy debates about addressing the journalism crisis in WA state and beyond
EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT: Murrow College will map Washington State’s news ecosystem by creating a database of local news sources and identifying news deserts. This project aims to ensure local news outlets meet residents’ information needs, which it hopes will foster community connection and civic engagement.
The team is led by @JennHenrichsen , and includes Murrow faculty members, @ppopiel , @bshors , @ryanjthomas83 , Lisa Waananen Jones; Murrow alumni, Elizabeth Chambers, Alexandra Fil; Murrow graduate student, Kathryn Robinson-Tay; Murrow staff, Jody Brannon; Joanne Lisosky, and WSU SESRC.
Read the WSU Insider article for more information on this important project: news.wsu.edu/news/2024/10/02…
"The technology, which Amazon is calling Vision Assisted Package Retrieval, works by shining a green light on packages so that the deliverer does not have to waste precious seconds reading labels." reuters.com/technology/amazo…
In case anyone is tempted to overstate the effects of the policy "techlash," this FTC study looks good. Sobering conclusion echoing decades of academic research: “Self-regulation has been a failure" nytimes.com/2024/09/19/techn…
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I wholeheartedly believe this is the right deal for the People of Philadelphia. To the People of Chinatown, please know that I hear you. We have the best Chinatown in the United States, and I am committed to working together to support it. I'll have a lot more to say in a formal presentation coming soon.
"The booming demand for electricity has forced tech giants to withdraw from their publicized commitments to slash their greenhouse gas emissions. The energy demand shock has already undermined climate change initiatives." promarket.org/2024/09/12/the… via @ProMarket_org
Imagine the impact on smaller news orgs. "The publisher estimated that around $9 million was exclusive to Google and would be lost in any shift to another product. Around 70-80% of News Corp ad transactions flowed through Google's ad exchanges" reuters.com/technology/news-…
"The court found Facebook did not regularly review the privacy policies of third-party apps beyond verifying they had a working hyperlink in their data agreement." Platform governance ain't a free for all. jurist.org/news/?p=257164
"It seems very clear that they’re setting up a case to point to where students have violated something" nytimes.com/2024/09/12/us/co…
"the largest single-year increase in wireless data consumption" reuters.com/technology/ameri…
Easy solution: Restructure as a public nonprofit governed by the creators whose content it steals
OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free futurism.com/the-byte/openai…
Bummer. dailyevergreen.com/179284/ne… via @DailyEvergreen
Releasing "Reagan" on Labor Day weekend ranks among the most offensive marketing decisions ever.
The movie “Reagan” is the worst kind of hagiography, writes the Globe's film critic. It’s a wretched 2½-hour bore that’s uncurious about its subject. trib.al/1axHF9E
"The percentage of Black students entering Amherst this fall dropped to 3% from 11% last year, and at Tufts, it dropped to 4.7 percent from 7.3 percent. Black students at the University of Virginia declined to 7 percent compared to 7.9 percent last year." nytimes.com/2024/08/30/us/bl…
"University administrations have taken additional steps to handle the volume of disciplinary cases, such as hiring outside consultants and implementing new policies in an attempt to prevent protests of the same scale"
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100% @JuliaAngwin: "Opening Google search data to competitors is not a new idea. ... 'Open access' [in broadband] required some cable and telephone companies to allow competitors to use their lines to provide internet service." nytimes.com/2024/08/27/opini…
"Whining about stuff is a treasured American pastime, so allow me to indulge: the iPhone is more fun in Europe now, and it’s not fair. They’re getting all kinds of stuff because they have cool regulators, not like, regular regulators." theverge.com/2024/8/24/24226… via @Verge
“It could accelerate the ongoing consolidation of the online media industry. Smaller publishers may struggle to survive if AI siphons away search traffic and ad dollars, leading to acquisitions by larger media companies or widespread shutdowns.” pymnts.com/google/2024/googl…
Google throwing money at structural problem: “Not a single organization representing journalists and news workers agreed to this undemocratic and secretive deal with one of the businesses destroying our industry” nytimes.com/2024/08/21/busin…
"Going public with a dual class stock is becoming a more frequent strategy among tech companies. ... This form of control is rooted in the distinction between property and accumulation already implicit in the legal form of the corporation." @cmmonwealth common-wealth.co.uk/publicat…