[Commlist] New book: “The Power of Platforms“

“The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society” is a new book by 
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Sarah Anne Ganter published by Oxford 
University Press.

Based on original interviews and other qualitative evidence, the book 
analyzes the "platform power" that a few technology companies have come 
to exercise in public life, the reservations publishers have about 
platforms, as well as the reasons why publishers often embrace them 
nonetheless. It traces how relations between publishers and platforms 
have evolved across the United States, France, Germany, and the United 
Kingdom and identifies the new, distinct relational and generative forms 
of power that platforms exercise as people increasingly rely on them to 
find and access news.

By examining the different ways publishers have responded to these 
changes and how various platform companies have in turn handled the 
increasingly important and controversial role they play in society, 
“/The Power of Platforms”/ draws out the implications of a fundamental 
feature of the contemporary world that we all need to understand: 
previously powerful and relatively independent institutions like the 
news media are increasingly in a position similar to that of ordinary 
individual users, simultaneously empowered by and dependent upon a small 
number of centrally placed and powerful platforms.

Pre-publication praise

“Essential reading for those who still care about information's role in 
politics." (Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science)

“An important book that brings welcome coherence and insight into the 
symbiotic and increasingly asymmetrical relationship between news 
publisher and platforms" (Vivian Schiller, The Aspen Institute)

“Truly a must-read for any student of media who wants to understand the 
controlling role of digital intermediaries." (José van Dijck, Utrecht 
University)

The book is available from OUP 
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-power-of-platforms-9780190908867?lang=en&cc=us# 
<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-power-of-platforms-9780190908867?lang=en&cc=us#> 


 From Amazon: 
https://www.amazon.com/Power-Platforms-Shaping-Society-Politics-ebook-dp-B09X5WPWF6/dp/B09X5WPWF6/ 
<https://www.amazon.com/Power-Platforms-Shaping-Society-Politics-ebook-dp-B09X5WPWF6/dp/B09X5WPWF6/>

And academic book stores.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. The Rise of Platforms

Chapter 2. An Epochal Debate Over the Value of Content: The Historical 
Development of Google's Relations with Publishers

Chapter 3. "Inextricably Intertwined"? Publishers Dealing with Platforms

Chapter 4. "Our futures are tied together": Platforms Dealing with 
Publishers

Chapter 5. The Power of Platforms

Methods Appendix

References

Notes

A short excerpt from the concluding chapter is available on the Nieman 
Lab here 
https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/04/how-can-publishers-respond-to-the-power-of-platforms/ 
<https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/04/how-can-publishers-respond-to-the-power-of-platforms/>

The corresponding author is Rasmus Kleis Nielsen at 
(rasmus.nielsen /at/ politics.ox.ac.uk) <mailto:(rasmus.nielsen /at/ politics.ox.ac.uk)>


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