Digital Platforms and the Press

James Meesearguesthat there is a growing risk of a platform-dependent press, a development thatthreatens liberal democracies across theworld. The book provides the firstcomprehensive account of how platformdependence manifests in the news mediasector. Platform dependence is a conceptused to describe what happens whenbusinesses or an entire sector, becomereliant on one or more digital platforms forits survival. The situation is occurringacross the news industry, to the extentthat it is difficult to imagine the production,distribution, and long-term survival ofnews in liberal democracies without theinvolvement of platforms. Withgovernments, regulators and citizensincreasingly concerned about platformpower, Digital Platforms and the Press isthe first book to highlight the long-termeconomic and social consequences ofplatform dependence for the news sector. Featuring a rich selection of case-studiesand written in an accessible style, DigitalPlatforms and the Press provides a stronggrounding in relevant debates for theinterested student reader, and importanttakeaways for subject matter experts injournalism studies and media policy. Digital Platforms and the Press will be of interest to journalism and media policy scholars, other scholars in communication, as well as industry practitioners and policymakers.