Pub Date : 2019-07-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198843498.003.0018
Antonio A. Casilli, Julian Posada
This chapter focuses on the role of digital intermediaries in shaping technology, society, and economy under what Casilli and Posada call “the paradigm of the platform.” They trace the historical relationship between platforms, markets, and enterprises to demonstrate the role of algorithms in matching users, pieces of software, goods, and services, and how platforms can create value from the content and data generated by users. Their primary argument is that platforms play a fundamental role in establishing a digital labor relationship with their users by allocating underpaid or unpaid tasks to them. In order to enable and coordinate users’ contributions, platforms need to standardize and fragment (“taskify”) labor processes. The authors conclude by highlighting the link between platformization and automation, with the tech giants employing their users’ data to produce artificial intelligence and machine-learning solutions to an expanding range of problems.
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The Internet has fundamentally changed how people access and use news. As Dutton and others (Chapter 13, this volume) note, there are concerns that the Internet leads us to get stuck in “echo chambers” or “filter bubbles”—limiting our access to points of view that might challenge our preexisting beliefs. This chapter introduces a network approach to analyzing news consumption in the digital age. The authors explain how we can compare patterns of news consumption across demographic groups, countries, and digital platforms, and determine if there are differences across groups of users and media systems. Measuring news consumption has long been difficult owing to the limitations of self-reported data, so this chapter is notable in offering a novel approach that leverages the digital traces that people leave behind when navigating the Web.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-29DOI: 10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199661992.003.0005
Victoria Nash
Children’s use of the Internet raises fraught issues, frequently contributing to a media-supported moral panic. Whilst digital technologies offer young people unique opportunities for education, entertainment, and the development of key social, motor, and media-literacy skills, they also pose risks, such as those relating to bullying, adult content, unwanted contact, and a displacement of more meaningful activities, such as reading or physical play. How, or whether, these risks should be minimized is the subject of intense media and policy debate, and often technological solutions are favored over social policies that are messy and uncertain in their effectiveness. Nash sets out the evidence regarding the balance of digital opportunity and risk for young people, and uses this as the context to outline policy measures targeted at them. Her analysis raises questions over whether children’s interests can be well served by policies developed in the context of a risk-focused public debate.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-29DOI: 10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199661992.003.0017
G. Taylor
There exists an almost unimaginable amount of content on the Internet: a volume of content that far outstrips the ability of any person to use or consume even a significant proportion of what is available. Because of this abundance of content, there is an inevitable scarcity of attention that users can spend on the Internet and Web. This chapter brings the expertise of an economist to bear on this issue. By deploying economic theory, the author outlines key forces shaping the emerging attention economy, including platform pricing, network effects, common pool resources, such as attention, and the allocation of attention by markets. Taylor makes these ideas accessible to non-economists and shows how these forces might fail to allocate our scarce attention in a fashion that best serves our interests as members of the Internet’s audience.
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