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Matthew Crain

@matthewcrain.bsky.social
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Media prof. Proud labor union member.

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Matthew Crain @matthewcrain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We are rushing towards age verification (a multi-faceted privacy nightmare) because these companies have created sociopathic, advertising-driven media products that have no natural upper bounds on their voraciousness.
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Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims (Gift Article)
The social media giant settled with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, and agreed to make major changes to its products over claims its platforms endangered children.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026
In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/
"Eugène Delacroix's painting 'La Liberté guidant le peuple' ('Liberty Leading the People'), depicting the French revolution as a ragtag group of peasants led by a flag-waving, bare-breasted incarnation of 'Liberty.' The painting has been altered: the scene is now being observed with a giant, smoke-shrouded CCTV dome, and the distant building have been replaced with a mainframe computer.
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Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Instead of advertising’s integration of AI media technologies as driven by natural market tendencies, @matthewcrain.bsky.social argues its from systemic commodification & political-economic forces, as analyzed through the Political Economy of Media & Communications framework. tinyurl.com/3yajfcmb
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Matthew Crain @matthewcrain.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
New two part essay out in @flowtv.bsky.social on advertising, AI, the political economy of media and communication. www.flowjournal.org/2025/04/adve...
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Advertising, AI, and the Political Economy of Media and Communications Matthew Crain / Miami University – Flow
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Matthew Crain @matthewcrain.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Bob was a giant. Helped me and many others in countless ways. His clear eyed assessment of power still offers the best way forward.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The great champion of independent, speak-truth-to-power journalism, and of the democracy that can only survive if the press is free, Robert W. McChesney, has died at age 72. He fought the media oligarchs and the politicians who served them — and often won. Now, we must carry the fight forward.
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Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died
The academic and activist inspired generations of people to challenge corporate power and support a media reform movement that lives on.
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Matthew Crain @matthewcrain.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
All of this
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Matthew Crain @matthewcrain.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
Were there any first amendment complaints when the US forced a Chinese company to sell Grindr in 2020?
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Matthew Crain @matthewcrain.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
My book, Profit Over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet, is available open access through JSTOR and @UMinnPress's Manifold site. It's an origin story for data-driven advertising via the lens of political economy of media & tech. www.jstor.org/stable/10.57...
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Profit over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet on JSTOR
p strongA deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internet/strong The contemporary internet's de facto business model is one of surveillan...
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Matthew Crain @matthewcrain.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
Now that’s good company.
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