Pawel Popiel
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Media policy + platforms + political economy | Assistant Professor @MurrowCollege | Philly expat | Affiliate @MIC_Center @unc_citap
Pullman, WA
Joined January 2013
🚨🚨Check out my new piece with Krishna Vasudevan, tracing how frictions within platform capitalism illuminate the shifting shapes of actually existing platformization AND introducing fantastic studies that constitute our @icsjournal SI on the subject 🔥 https://t.co/LZG69th2Xd
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OK last one. RIP Bezos's Readiness to Stand up Against Political Pressure - 2013-2024. You left us too young. https://t.co/q0tcNDIUNE
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Some great research I'm happy to be part of @MurrowCollege that's pushing the envelope methodologically and aiming to make a significant impact on the policy debates about addressing the journalism crisis in WA state and beyond
EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT: Murrow College will map Washington State’s news ecosystem by creating a database of local news sources and identifying news deserts. This project aims to ensure local news outlets meet residents’ information needs, which it hopes will foster
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"The technology, which Amazon is calling Vision Assisted Package Retrieval, works by shining a green light on packages so that the deliverer does not have to waste precious seconds reading labels."
reuters.com
Amazon , in its quest for greater efficiency, has developed new systems to shave seconds off each package delivery and to help customers make faster buying choices, even for new product types that...
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In case anyone is tempted to overstate the effects of the policy "techlash," this FTC study looks good. Sobering conclusion echoing decades of academic research: “Self-regulation has been a failure"
nytimes.com
Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission finds.
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As your Mayor, I'm speaking from my City Hall office with a very important announcement. I am proud to share that I have made my decision, and an agreement has been reached to ensure that our Sixers are staying home. I wholeheartedly believe this is the right deal for the People
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"The booming demand for electricity has forced tech giants to withdraw from their publicized commitments to slash their greenhouse gas emissions. The energy demand shock has already undermined climate change initiatives." https://t.co/kXGqNIF2eE via @ProMarket_org
promarket.org
The United States power grid is increasingly strained by the surging electricity demand driven by the AI boom. Efforts to modernize the power infrastructure are unlikely to keep pace with the rising...
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Imagine the impact on smaller news orgs. "The publisher estimated that around $9 million was exclusive to Google and would be lost in any shift to another product. Around 70-80% of News Corp ad transactions flowed through Google's ad exchanges"
reuters.com
News Corp in 2017 estimated losing at least $9 million in ad revenue that year if it had switched away from Google's massive advertising apparatus, keeping the media conglomerate captive to the Big...
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"The court found Facebook did not regularly review the privacy policies of third-party apps beyond verifying they had a working hyperlink in their data agreement." Platform governance ain't a free for all.
jurist.org
The Canadian Federal Court of Appeal found that social media platform Facebook violated statutory obligations for data protection and meaningful consent created by Canada's primary legislation on...
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"It seems very clear that they’re setting up a case to point to where students have violated something"
nytimes.com
Ahead of a new school year, colleges across the country have adopted a wave of new rules around protest and speech.
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"the largest single-year increase in wireless data consumption"
reuters.com
Americans used just over 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023, up 36% over the prior year in the largest single-year increase in wireless data consumption, according to an industry survey...
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Easy solution: Restructure as a public nonprofit governed by the creators whose content it steals
OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
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Releasing "Reagan" on Labor Day weekend ranks among the most offensive marketing decisions ever.
The movie “Reagan” is the worst kind of hagiography, writes the Globe's film critic. It’s a wretched 2½-hour bore that’s uncurious about its subject.
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"The percentage of Black students entering Amherst this fall dropped to 3% from 11% last year, and at Tufts, it dropped to 4.7 percent from 7.3 percent. Black students at the University of Virginia declined to 7 percent compared to 7.9 percent last year."
nytimes.com
Amherst College and Tufts University saw drops in the number of Black students after a Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action. At other schools, the picture is murkier.
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"University administrations have taken additional steps to handle the volume of disciplinary cases, such as hiring outside consultants and implementing new policies in an attempt to prevent protests of the same scale" https://t.co/rR9aN1VcIg
theguardian.com
As classes restart, many of the 3,000 students detained are navigating legal system and disciplinary proceedings
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100% @JuliaAngwin: "Opening Google search data to competitors is not a new idea. ... 'Open access' [in broadband] required some cable and telephone companies to allow competitors to use their lines to provide internet service."
nytimes.com
To end Google’s monopoly on search, the company should be required to disgorge its data on what we’re searching for.
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"Whining about stuff is a treasured American pastime, so allow me to indulge: the iPhone is more fun in Europe now, and it’s not fair. They’re getting all kinds of stuff because they have cool regulators, not like, regular regulators." https://t.co/c96qzGK4nh via @Verge
theverge.com
Inside you, there are two iPhones.
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“It could accelerate the ongoing consolidation of the online media industry. Smaller publishers may struggle to survive if AI siphons away search traffic and ad dollars, leading to acquisitions by larger media companies or widespread shutdowns.”
pymnts.com
After a landmark antitrust ruling against Google, online publications face a pivotal decision: whether to allow the tech giant to use their content for
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Google throwing money at structural problem: “Not a single organization representing journalists and news workers agreed to this undemocratic and secretive deal with one of the businesses destroying our industry”
nytimes.com
The agreement includes $70 million from the state, which needs legislative approval. Some lawmakers objected, calling for a more comprehensive solution with tech companies.
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"Going public with a dual class stock is becoming a more frequent strategy among tech companies. ... This form of control is rooted in the distinction between property and accumulation already implicit in the legal form of the corporation." @cmmonwealth
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