16. Silicon Valley And Journalism

Bell, Emily

doi:10.7312/bell17612-019

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“…Today, they have far less control over the distribution of news than they had in the past. They may reach wider audiences than they can through their own websites and apps, but they do it by publishing to platforms defined by coding technologies, business models, and cultural conventions over which they have little influence and are increasingly dependent (Bell, 2014; Bell et al, 2016). They used to control both content and channels.…”

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“…The development to a point where, according to Emily Bell (2014), “the public sphere is now operated by a small number of private companies, based in Silicon Valley” has been a rapid one, starting in the 2000s, but accelerating significantly since 2010. News media organizations have reacted in different ways.…”

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“…Increasingly, people find news via digital intermediaries, in particular the dominant search engine Google and the dominant social networking site Facebook, and advertisers go to them for cheap, targeted, online advertising. A growing number of news organizations across the world report that only about half their online traffic comes direct to their website and app, with the rest coming from search and social referrals (Bell, 2014; Bell et al, 2016). The audience analytics company Parse.ly estimates that Google and Facebook in 2015 each accounted for about 40% of all referral traffic to publishers (with Yahoo and Twitter a distant third and fourth at less than 5% each).…”

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Dealing with digital intermediaries: A case study of the relations between publishers and platforms

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2017

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The rise of digital intermediaries such as search engines and social media is profoundly changing our media environment. Here, we analyze how news media organizations handle their relations to these increasingly important intermediaries. Based on a strategic case study, we argue that relationships between publishers and platforms are characterized by a tension between (1) short-term, operational opportunities and (2) long-term strategic worries about becoming too dependent on intermediaries. We argue that these relationships are shaped by news media’s fear of missing out, the difficulties of evaluating the risk/reward ratios, and a sense of asymmetry. The implication is that news media that developed into an increasingly independent institution in the 20th century—in part enabled by news media organizations’ control over channels of communication—are becoming dependent upon new digital intermediaries that structure the media environment in ways that not only individual citizens but also large, resource-rich, powerful organizations have to adapt to.

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“…Ironically, rather than concentrating on business models that provide an alternative to platform economics, most leading news organizations, with a few notable exceptions, have started to pursue what can be understood as a platform-native strategy : the hosting and monetization of editorial content and expertise on the GAFAM platforms, rather than on their own digital properties. A number of platform-initiated programs, such as Facebook’s Instant Articles, Apple News, and Google AMP pages entice publishers to unbundle their content and host it on a platform’s servers (Bell and Owen, 2017).…”

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“…In terms of monetization, this loss of autonomy, at least in the short run, does not appear to solve the economic difficulties of the news industry. Although launched with much fanfare, platform-native content hosting programs do not appear to generate the anticipated amount of advertising revenue (Bell and Owen, 2017).…”

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The platformization of cultural production: Theorizing the contingent cultural commodity

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Poell²

2018

New Media & Society

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This article explores how the political economy of the cultural industries changes through platformization: the penetration of economic and infrastructural extensions of online platforms into the web, affecting the production, distribution, and circulation of cultural content. It pursues this investigation in critical dialogue with current research in business studies, political economy, and software studies. Focusing on the production of news and games, the analysis shows that in economic terms platformization entails the replacement of two-sided market structures with complex multisided platform configurations, dominated by big platform corporations. Cultural content producers have to continuously grapple with seemingly serendipitous changes in platform governance, ranging from content curation to pricing strategies. Simultaneously, these producers are enticed by new platform services and infrastructural changes. In the process, cultural commodities become fundamentally "contingent," that is increasingly modular in design and continuously reworked and repackaged, informed by datafied user feedback.

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The business of news in the AI economy

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2024

AI Magazine

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This article considers the impact of AI on the economy and financing of journalism organizations. AI has structural implications on the news media beyond the practice of journalism and the management of news as a process. AI also shifts the premises of competition, competitive advantage, mergers and acquisitions, and IT capabilities in the news industries. Not least, it fundamentally challenges journalism's traditional business model. Considered hereunder is the two‐sided market model, journalism's traditional platform function, its network effects, and its public good characteristics. The aim of the article is, thus, to reconceptualize core economic features of the news industries in the context of AI to provide a vocabulary with which to assess the economic future of journalism in a data‐driven platform economy.

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16. Silicon Valley And Journalism

Cited by 34 publications

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Dealing with digital intermediaries: A case study of the relations between publishers and platforms

Dealing with digital intermediaries: A case study of the relations between publishers and platforms

The platformization of cultural production: Theorizing the contingent cultural commodity

The business of news in the AI economy

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