Tesco
Facebook Is Eating the World
Article

Facebook Is Eating the World

Emily Bell
Columbia Journalism Review, 2016
Read the article

Read or listen offline

автоматическое преобразование текста в аудио
  • 0.5×
  • 0.75×
  • 1×
  • 1.25×
  • 1.5×
  • 1.75×
1×
автоматическое преобразование текста в аудио

Editorial Rating

8

Recommendation

Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, examines how social media platforms are reshaping journalism. Her comprehensive analysis considers the potential of news publishers merging with social media platforms. Bell draws grim conclusions about reporting’s future as she looks at publications’ risks of increased dependence on external platforms and their loss of access to their distribution chain and their readers. getAbstract finds her article illuminating for journalists, publishers and readers.

Take-Aways

  • Social media’s takeover of  “political campaigns, banking systems,…government and security” – and more – harbors two inherent risks for publishers.
  • First, news organizations that rely on social media platforms lose control over distribution.
  • Second, social media companies are becoming more powerful as they gain control of who sees what stories and how journalism is monetized.

About the Author

Emily Bell directs the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School. She is the 2015-2016 Humanitas Visiting Professor in Media  at the University of Cambridge.

Comment on this summary or Начать обсуждение