Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age

摘要

Despite the benefits they were meant to bring, social media platforms have become powerful disinformation channels that threaten the orderly functioning of democratic institutions. While many have come to view the situation with alarm and demanded that "something" be done, few have undertaken the careful analysis needed to begin to get a handle on the problem.In Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age, Philip Napoli focuses on the dominant role social media plays in the curation, distribution, and consumption of news and information, and systematically develops the ideas needed to create a media governance framework appropriate to social media platforms.