Social Media and the Public Interest

Produktbeschreibung

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. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Taming of the Web and the Rise of Algorithmic News
2. Algorithmic Gatekeeping and the Transformation of News Organizations
3. The First Amendment, Fake News, and Filter Bubbles
4. The Structure of the Algorithmic Marketplace of Ideas
5. The Public-Interest Principle in Media Governance: Past and Present
6. Reviving the Public Interest
Conclusion
Notes
Index 

Autoreninfo

Philip M. Napoli is the James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, where he is also a faculty affiliate with the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy. His previous books include Audience Economics: Media Institutions and the Audience Marketplace (2003) and Audience Evolution: New Technologies and the Transformation of Media Audiences (2010), both from Columbia University Press.