Book talk: 'The power of platforms: shaping media and society'
More people today get news via Facebook and Google than from any news organisation in history, and smaller platforms like X serve news to more users than all but the biggest media companies.

Large technology companies such as Facebook and Google – in competition with a few others including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft , and a handful of other companies elsewhere – increasingly define the way the internet works and thereby influence the structure of the entire digital media environment. But how do they exercise this power, how have news organisations responded, and what does this development mean for the production and circulation of news? What can relations between platform companies and news media tell us about the dynamics shaping current developments around artificial intelligence?

In this talk Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science and Media, will explore the impact of big technology companies on journalism and our societies more broadly.

This talk will be followed by refreshments and a book sale, all welcome.

REGISTRATION
To register to attend this talk in-person in Oxford, register at: www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/power-of-platforms
To watch live online via Crowdcast: www.crowdcast.io/c/power-of-platforms
Date: 21 November 2023, 12:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and online)
Speaker: Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science and Media)
Organising department: Oxford Martin School
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: events@oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Oxford Martin School Events
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/power-of-platforms/
Audience: Public
Editor: Hannah Mitchell