The Automated Public Sphere

Frank PASQUALE, « The Automated Public Sphere » dans Ann RUDINOW, SÆTNAN, Ingriad SCHNEIDER, Nicola GREEN (dir.) The Politics and Policies of Big Data, Big Brother? (2018). 

En anglais seulement.

Abstract

The public sphere has experienced yet another structural transformation. Firms like Facebook and Google have largely automated the types of decisions made by managers at television networks, or editors at newspapers – but with much more powerful effects. Long critiqued in academic circles, the manifest inadequacy of this new media landscape is now itself a matter of public debate. The deficiencies of the automated public sphere are so manifest that consumer protection and media regulatory authorities must intervene. As they do so, they should carefully examine how emergent dynamics of communicative capitalism vitiate older societal protections. New methods of monitoring and regulation should be as technologically sophisticated and comprehensive as the automated public sphere they target.

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