Is the fediverse social media?
Or is it an alternative to social media?
Here's Charlotte Fry's winning video essay in this year's Better Public Media's Geoff Lealand Student Challenge. The topic?
"Social Media: Love it or leave it"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0GGycDw2Ug
The subtext of Charlotte's analysis is that "social media" is designed around advertising, and thus attention-hacking. The fediverse isn't, so arguably it's not "social media" as it's now used.
But as I keep saying, I agree with Better Public Media that a tax on digital advertising - applied across the board rather than targeting specific actors - is the best model (involving the state) I've come across so far.
As well as creating a funding pool for public interest media, it would discourage ad-based digital business models. Think of it as a pollution tax for the mediasphere.
MediaWatch this week interviewed Dr Peter Thompson of Better Public Media about Labour's Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018927313/a-lifeboat-to-keep-news-afloat
BPM think that the bill misses the target, and is likely to benefit larger news media companies - if any - more than small ones. Instead, they proposes using an industry-wide levy - say on all digital ad revenues - to fund something like the Public Journalism Fund.
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#podcasts #RNZ #Mediawatch #DrPeterThompson #BetterPublicMedia
Last week the great and good of New Zealand’s news media urged MPs to back a law change to make Google and Facebook pay them for their news. They say the income could be critical to the survival of journalism here. But the lobby group campaigning for better public media says there’s a better way to ‘send a lifeboat’.
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