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Public Interest and Media Infrastructures
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Today’s media systems include the powerful social media companies that watch, commodify, and manipulate us as they buy and sell our data. Mike Ananny urges a more sophisticated understanding of the privately controlled infrastructures where important decisions are made shaping behaviours, beliefs and online news. These might look like boring, messy, technical places where only engineers work, but regulators need to grasp their complexities and tackle the prevailing secrecy to better protect the public interest.
Date: Tuesday September 1, 2020
DDP Research Memo #1: Media, Knowledge and Misinformation
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This is the first of a series of DDP Research Memos that map the media ecosystem in the run-up to and during Canada's October 2019 federal election. This memo provides an initial snapshot of the Canadian political media ecosystem.
Date: Thursday August 8, 2019
Lessons in Resilience: Canada’s Digital Media Ecosystem and the 2019 Election
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Canada's 2019 federal election provided a unique opportunity to investigate mis/ disinformation. The Digital Democracy Project looked at 12 threats to citizens' online sources of information to uncover how resilient Canadians' are in the face of disinformation. Read the main findings to better understand polarization and about online media bubbles in which Canadians live.
Date: Thursday May 7, 2020
DDP Research Memo #5: Fact-Checking, Blackface and the Media
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This report takes a closer look at the effectiveness of fact-checking and surveys reaction to the Trudeau blackface controversy on social media.
Date: Thursday October 3, 2019
Poisoning Democracy: How Canada Can Address Harmful Speech Online
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The rise of harmful speech online is a threat to Canada’s democracy. This report outlines how governments and digital platform companies can better address hate and harassment, including the creation of a Moderation Standards Council.
Date: Thursday November 8, 2018
The Shattered Mirror: 5 Years On
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Our latest report discusses how to save local news in Canada, and how to best adapt the Australian model of negotiated compensation between Google/Meta and the news industry.
Date: Thursday March 3, 2022
Community media can play a pivotal role in Canada’s disrupted news environment
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...here. Related links and research: http://www.commediaconverge.ca/sites/default/files/documents/Community%20Media%20Policy%20Survey%20Report%20Oct%2029.pdf http://www.commediaconverge.ca/sites/default/files/documents/Proposals%20ComMedia%20-%20Bilingues.pdf http://cactus.independentmedia.ca/files/cactus/Public-Community%20Partnerships.doc To read the submissions of la Fédération (not specific to the PPF report, but capturing recent data regarding community TV and its...
Date: Monday April 3, 2017
What the Saskatchewan Roughriders Can Teach Canadian Journalism
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Many different approaches to support journalism, locally and beyond, have emerged in recent years in the wake of the sharp decline of traditional industry players. Public policy will play a crucial role in shaping the rules for ownership innovation and protected space for Canadian journalism.
Date: Tuesday September 25, 2018
World’s top social media thinkers to discuss threats to democracy – and solutions – at PPF public event on Wednesday, April 4
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On April 4, the Public Policy Forum and the University of British Columbia School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, in partnership with the National Arts Centre, are hosting a discussion with some of the world’s leading experts on social media, including Jonathan Albright, Ben Scott, Julia Angwin, David Carroll, Sue Gardner, and Taylor Owen.
Date: Tuesday April 3, 2018
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Date: Monday January 24, 2022
Democracy Divided: Countering Disinformation and Hate in the Digital Public Sphere
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Democracy has been made vulnerable to attack by hate speech and disinformation on digital and social platforms. Policy must be implemented to reconcile freedom of speech and freedom of the press with these online news threats to democracy.
Date: Wednesday August 15, 2018
PPF Media
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PPF Media is a leading source of smart analysis and innovative thinking on the policy issues that shape our democracy, drive our economic growth and matter most to Canadians. Featuring...
Date: Sunday February 6, 2022
DDP Research Memo #3: Polarization and its Discontents
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This is the third of a series of DDP Research Memos that map the media ecosystem in the run-up to Canada's October 2019 federal election. It looks at whether Canadians are polarized and how that relates to the social media environment.
Date: Thursday September 12, 2019
Frontiers and Borders:
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...produce their content; the new platforms had it handed to them for free. Legacy media values and practices like balance and verification never migrated to the new social media system....
Date: Friday June 18, 2021
Frontiers and Borders: The Internet and the Amplification of Illiberalism
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"Truth is an inescapable foundation of the liberal order and is in a precarious state in today’s liberal democracy. Our ability to address difficult issues such as climate change or electoral integrity is compromised if truth and public opinion become confused.” Edward Greenspon’s recent essay examines liberalism’s complex state of flux in an age of internet dominance. Greenspon draws on his firsthand experiences as a journalist covering the ascent of liberalism in the late 1980s and early 1990s, using it as a jump-off point for considering the ongoing struggle between the frontiers of change and social progress versus the borders of insecurity and social stability.
Date: Wednesday July 21, 2021