James Meese is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University and an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society.
"“Going beyond the gestural politics of the ‘techlash,’ James Messe has developed an extremely timely neo-institutional analysis of the changing dynamics of the relationships between digital platforms and news publishers. Alert to legal, commercial and policy nuances and complexities, Meese’s text will become a central point of reference for researchers, policy makers and industry participants alike.” -- Terry Flew, Professor, The University of Sydney ""In this pace-setting new book, James Meese tackles pressing problems in the increasingly imbalanced relationship between planetary scale digital platforms such as Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook) and Apple, on the one side, and news media, on the other. Meese charts how the former are gaining the upper hand when it comes to the distribution of news, the training of a new generation of journalists and news industry workers, getting paid and, of course, the online advertising market. He not only brings a sure hand and wisdom to his analysis of these issues, but also to the policy options he puts on the table."" -- Dwayne Winseck, Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University and Director of the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project"