The platform press: how Silicon Valley reengineered journalism

By Emily J. Bell, Taylor Owen, P. D. Brown, Codi Hauka, Nushin Rashidian. 2017

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How algorithmic popularity bias hinders or promotes quality (2017, background): “It has been argued, for example, that the engagement bias of social media ranking algorithms is partly responsible for the spread of low-quality content over high-quality material [4].”
The platformization of cultural production: Theorizing the contingent cultural commodity (2018, unknown): “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).”
Nathaniel Persily e Joshua A. Tucker (a cura di). Social Media and Democracy. The State of the Field, Prospects for Reform (2021, background): “…media means that newsrooms frequently have to produce more news across more channels, at a faster pace than before, as a shrinking number of journalists publish to a website, multiple social media channels, and often a legacy media platform too (whether print or broadcast) (Bell et al 2017).”