Digital Intermediation

This book offers a new framework for understanding content creation and distribution across automated media platforms. The findings in this book provide key recommendations for policymakers working within digital media platforms, and will be invaluable reading for students and academics interested in automated media environments.

Jonathon Hutchinson is the Chair of the Discipline of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. He is a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project, Online News and Media Pluralism, and is also a Chief Investigator on the eSafety Commission Research project, Emerging online safety issues: co-creating social media education with young people.

1. Introduction 2. Digital Intermediation: A theoretical framework 3. Digital Intermediation: Opportunities and Challenges 4. Digital first personalities 5. Micro-platformisation 6. Automated media 7. Transparent infrastructures 8. The role of public institutions for digital intermediation 9. Conclusion