Final report published

Our research project final report Road to freedom: News media breaking free from Silicon Valley’s grip is now published!

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Abstract

The aim of the Road to freedom research project was to find out how the Finnish news media are dependent on the technology giants of Silicon Valley, mainly Meta (Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Whatsapp), Alphabet (Google, Youtube, Android), Apple and Amazon. Continue reading “Final report published”

Final event and presentation on Monday 14th February 2022

Welcome to the final event of Road to freedom -research project (2021) where we will sum up what we learned.

At this event, we will present the final report “Road to freedom: News media breaking free from Silicon Valley’s grip” that we have produced for the Swedish School of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki. In the report, we present three future scenarios on how the dependency between Silicon Valley tech giants, media and marketing could develop by 2030. Continue reading “Final event and presentation on Monday 14th February 2022”

Help us find examples of deplatformisation

Our research team is currently searching for examples of media organizations that have tried to break free from platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

We have already found some cases, but now we need your help. Do you know an organization that has decided to abandon social media completely, pause their activities on platforms or maybe quit advertising on some social media channels?

If you have any cases in mind, please fill out this short questionnaire. Filling out the form will take less than five minutes. Continue reading “Help us find examples of deplatformisation”

Missed our online kick-off? Recordings now available

The online kick-off of our research project was held on February 17th 2021. We have now published the recordings and a summary of the discussions concerning what it requires of news media and advertisers to reduce their dependency of Silicon Valley tech giants.

The speakers in the event were:

Continue reading “Missed our online kick-off? Recordings now available”

Online kick-off event on Wednesday 17th February 2021

Update 4.3.2021: The online kick-off event was a success! Thank you to all participants. Please find the recordings and summaries of the kick-off presentations in this blog post.

You are cordially invited to the official launch of our research project Road to Freedom (in Finnish, Tiekartta vapauteen) on Wednesday 17th February 2021 at 2 PM to 3.30 PM (CET time).

The topic of the discussion is what it requires for news media and advertisers to reduce dependence on Silicon Valley tech giants such as Google, Apple and Facebook. We have invited a group of thinkers involved in the ongoing conversation about the power of platforms to share their thoughts. Continue reading “Online kick-off event on Wednesday 17th February 2021”