A critical media education approach: using the concept of production (a.k.a. institutions or industry) to teach about social media.
Category Archives: economics
Media and the sharing economy
The so-called ‘sharing economy’ seems to be based on feel-good ideas about reciprocity and trust. Yet for companies like Uber, Airbnb – and for social media companies like Facebook and YouTube – it has become a new business model, which is massively profitable.
How does Google make so much money?
What do we need to know about the commercial dimensions of internet use, and particularly of its most basic function, search? How does Google – far and away the market leader – manage to make so much money from what seems to be such a basic, straightforward service?
Eh oh! Recycling Teletubbies
How can we understand the increasing recycling of children’s television? A few thoughts on the BBC’s return to Teletubby land.
David Buckingham 