Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This paper critically examines the Australian News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code, a regulation which mandates negotiated remuneration between large digital platforms like Google and Facebook and news media businesses. Adopting a Marxist lens, it analyses the interplay between economic interests, law-making and ideological narratives in the development of the Code. It considers how the Code, initially intended to address economic and power imbalances between news media and tech giants like Google or Facebook, ultimately reflects the economic imperatives of these platforms. The practical impacts of the Code on journalism, democratic society and digital platform regulation require further research.
Author: Kimmy Shah
Institution: Maastricht University
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4403228987