Bit by bit, the platforms admit they are editorial companies, a concession they tried mightily to avoid.https://twitter.com/sarahfrier/status/1096122631185522688 …
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Replying to @jayrosen_nyu
Editorial would assume they produce. Instead they -- what? -- enable? now moderate? police? In a conversational milleau we need new terms, new concepts. This is neither "content" nor "media" (and not "editorial') in our terms.
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Replying to @jeffjarvis
To me "editorial" means they choose, filter, you know... edit. And if they choose, filter, and edit they have to decide on what basis they are making these calls. Bit by bit, this takes them into editorial territory. Still, I take your point that platforms are a different animal.
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Replying to @jayrosen_nyu @jeffjarvis
They distribute, host, monetize, commission, incentivize certain types of creation. Their filters suggest better ways of making posts, they publish training courses for journalists and give them ‘best practice’ examples. They sit in newsrooms and tell journalists what to do ...
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Editorial has always meant more than just produce the content, the only bit that facebook doesn’t do. It distributes, moderates, links and therefore “edits”?
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From another thread: Try this: what matters is not what they do but what they do it to--and that is not content but conversation (praise be to Carey). Conversations are not edited. Altering, controlling, influencing, judging, promoting them is something else. We need new terms.
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