JOUA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Tyee, E-Democracy, Google News
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Digital media and democracy: digital is democratic because, content is (mostly) free an accessible to anyone with a digital device and internet connection. "claims by facebook or google that they are engines of digital democracy and diversity are laughable. For example, the tyee rarely registers on the google news home page because So we"ll run an important investigative piece, and under the heading of british columbia, google will showcase instead a vancouver sun piece of gardening. Because they have a bigger footprint, and google, rather than supporting diversity, reinforces the bigfoots. Facebook is similarly a filter harming small independents.
