TY - CHAP

T1 - News, sex, and the fight between corporate control and human communication online

AU - Dellwing, Michael

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Dirk vom Lehn, Will Gibson and Natalia Ruiz-Junco; individual chapters, the contributors.

PY - 2023/1/1

Y1 - 2023/1/1

N2 - Centralization, decentralization, hobbyism, and monetization have been in perpetual conflict over dominance on the internet for decades. Two domains stand in the center of this fight: news and sex. While sex was long a domain of hobbyist interaction, news was long a domain of centralized, corporate aggregation. Today, subversive use of existing monetized services blur the lines, like decentralized news content on YouTube channels as well as nude content on hub sites or Onlyfans, which retain decentralization at the expense of introducing monetization.

AB - Centralization, decentralization, hobbyism, and monetization have been in perpetual conflict over dominance on the internet for decades. Two domains stand in the center of this fight: news and sex. While sex was long a domain of hobbyist interaction, news was long a domain of centralized, corporate aggregation. Today, subversive use of existing monetized services blur the lines, like decentralized news content on YouTube channels as well as nude content on hub sites or Onlyfans, which retain decentralization at the expense of introducing monetization.

KW - Cultural studies

KW - Media and communication studies

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85174766728&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/96ca159d-4935-3948-b7e1-8b3bf0bcb7de/

U2 - 10.4324/9781003277750-4

DO - 10.4324/9781003277750-4

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85174766728

SN - 9781032230689

SP - 42

EP - 58

BT - People, Technology, and Social Organization

A2 - vom Lehn, Dirk

A2 - Gibson, Will

A2 - Ruiz-Junco, Natalia

PB - Taylor and Francis Inc.

ER -