"Journalism has a funding problem. Journalists are losing their jobs as a result. News businesses have tried various models to sustain their operations, while the Australian government has also attempted to address it through initiatives like the News Media Bargaining Code and the News Media Assistance Program.

One underexplored funding strategy for journalism is the youtuber business model. The growth of youtuber journalism indicates that this is a viable option for funding video journalism, especially long-form journalism."

My latest piece for the CMT

#Journalism #YouTube #Commodon @commodon #AIOR #News #NewsMedia #youtuber #MichaelWest #POL204

https://www.uts.edu.au/research/centre-media-transition/news/profitable-journalism-subscribe

Super hot off the press -- preprint -- paper on platform governance & mastodon. <relevant>

"The Digital Covenant: Non-Centralized Platform
Governance on the Mastodon Social Network."

(forwarding from #AIOR mailing list)

Pre-print in H-Commons:

https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:49433/