Mediamorphis
@mediamorphis.bsky.social
Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Coms, internet & media industries, regulation & history. Director of the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project. https://www.gmicp.org
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Canada’s Network Media Economy: Growth, Concentration and Upheaval 1984-2024
A report produced by the Canadian research team of the Global Media and Internet Research Project
Now drawing upon 40 years of data, this report places some of the most significant recent developmen...
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The 2025 edition of "Canada's Network Media Economy: Growth, Concentration & Upheaval, 1984-2024" was released today. It's part of the 36 country, SSHRC-supported Global Media & Internet Concentration Project. The report addresses simple Qs but whose answers have . . . . gmicp.org/canadas-netw... 1/
Insanity. The 20th century's brutal history of anticolonial struggle for a better world turned upside down in the service of Trumpism. Central figures in the Trump regime are mobilizing a bastardized account of US & world history to service its crackpot vision of premodern capitalism w/o democracy.
Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.
January 5, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Insanity. The 20th century's brutal history of anticolonial struggle for a better world turned upside down in the service of Trumpism. Central figures in the Trump regime are mobilizing a bastardized account of US & world history to service its crackpot vision of premodern capitalism w/o democracy.
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It’s also a direct take off of Louis Dalrymple’s 1905 cartoon that originally featured Uncle Sam.
January 4, 2026 at 4:29 AM
It’s also a direct take off of Louis Dalrymple’s 1905 cartoon that originally featured Uncle Sam.
Look, it's Trump in the British imperialist, Cecil Rhodes, infamous collosus-stands-bestride-the-African-continent pose.
Look I know this is all terrible and horrifying - it's important to be looking at what is happening in full clarity and seriousness... but it's also important to remember that these acts are absolutely fed off the power and public image people are giving him. Exactly the image he wants to project.
January 4, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Look, it's Trump in the British imperialist, Cecil Rhodes, infamous collosus-stands-bestride-the-African-continent pose.
I'm looking forward to hear what @ojutel.bsky.social had to say on @gilduran's NerdReich podcast. He's one of the sharpest voices on the technofascists' plans to build systems & self-contained 'network states' that offer them an escape from society and democracy.
Excellent discussion with @gilduran.com and @ojutel.bsky.social on the Silicon Valley fascists and their plot to take over the world and enslave the rest of us.
New: Inside the Tech Cult: How Venture Capital Plans to Exist Democracy.
My conversation with @ojutel.bsky.social on the Nerd Reich pod. We talk about the failing bets that have helped to radicalize tech VCs, who now wish to cash in on democracy and humanity itself.
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My conversation with @ojutel.bsky.social on the Nerd Reich pod. We talk about the failing bets that have helped to radicalize tech VCs, who now wish to cash in on democracy and humanity itself.
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January 2, 2026 at 8:54 PM
I'm looking forward to hear what @ojutel.bsky.social had to say on @gilduran's NerdReich podcast. He's one of the sharpest voices on the technofascists' plans to build systems & self-contained 'network states' that offer them an escape from society and democracy.
Beautiful. It's such a refreshing change to see Zohran Mamdani mobilize art, community, and beauty at his inauguration. It strikes such a welcome contrast to the usual state of politics.
Lucy Dacus performs "Bread and Roses" - the Labor Anthem - at the Inauguration of Zohran Mamdani.
January 2, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Beautiful. It's such a refreshing change to see Zohran Mamdani mobilize art, community, and beauty at his inauguration. It strikes such a welcome contrast to the usual state of politics.
Prof. @maryannefranks.bsky.social on how X's worsening record on CSAM and exploitative images set the stage for Grok to be used for the same purposes right now.
Child exploitation content on X/Twitter sharply increased under Musk, who not only abruptly disbanded the group of volunteer experts advising the platform on child safety, image exploitation, and other abuses in 2022, but tried to blame them for the company's CSAM problem www.npr.org/2022/12/12/1...
January 2, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Prof. @maryannefranks.bsky.social on how X's worsening record on CSAM and exploitative images set the stage for Grok to be used for the same purposes right now.
Advertising-funded, money losing cog in the rightwing propaganda machinery.
Rupert Murdoch ran the NY Post for 40+ years at a financial loss. Because it’s critical (and priceless) messaging and influence infrastructure.
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Murdoch's New York Post achieves first profit 'in modern times'
New York Post in profit: CEO Robert Thomson praises title for press freedom victory over Twitter as it posts first profit in modern times.
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January 2, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Advertising-funded, money losing cog in the rightwing propaganda machinery.
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Having Grok issue an “apology” is not just insulting and stupid (obviously Grok cannot actually “regret” anything, deeply or otherwise) but cowardly: It asks us to assign responsibility to an unconscious piece of software rather than the humans and institutions who should actually be blamed.
January 2, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Having Grok issue an “apology” is not just insulting and stupid (obviously Grok cannot actually “regret” anything, deeply or otherwise) but cowardly: It asks us to assign responsibility to an unconscious piece of software rather than the humans and institutions who should actually be blamed.
It's 2026 and time to check your assumptions about Russia's strength (it's much weaker than you might think) and that the US will automatically return to being a "normal" state post Trump (unlikely).
It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
January 2, 2026 at 1:40 AM
It's 2026 and time to check your assumptions about Russia's strength (it's much weaker than you might think) and that the US will automatically return to being a "normal" state post Trump (unlikely).
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Yes. We can.
Most read from Tech Policy Press in 2025: "We can create systems that expand opportunity rather than concentrate power. We can build technology that strengthens democracy rather than undermines it." — Alondra Nelson.
Three Fallacies: Alondra Nelson's Remarks at the Elysée Palace on the Occasion of the AI Action Summit | TechPolicy.Press
Dr. Nelson was an invited speaker at a dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palais de l'Élysée on February 10, 2025.
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January 1, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Yes. We can.
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Thanks @uccmediajustice.org, @newsguild.org, @nabetcwa.bsky.social & @publicknowledge.bsky.social for joining @freepress.bsky.social to stop this conglomerate merger.
Like I say when Brendan Carr talks about defending localism: these giant chains are local broadcasters like CVS is a local pharmacy.
Like I say when Brendan Carr talks about defending localism: these giant chains are local broadcasters like CVS is a local pharmacy.
Who needs champagne and parties when you can fight a broadcast merger instead?? 🍾🥂🎊🪩
Just filed at the FCC, on the NYE due date. (Thanks Brendan!) Our formal Petition to Deny the broadcast behemoth merger between Nexstar (of Jimmy Kimmel infamy) and TEGNA.
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Just filed at the FCC, on the NYE due date. (Thanks Brendan!) Our formal Petition to Deny the broadcast behemoth merger between Nexstar (of Jimmy Kimmel infamy) and TEGNA.
www.freepress.net/news/labor-u...
Labor Unions and Media Justice Groups File Petition Urging the FCC to Reject Nexstar’s Proposed Takeover of Tegna
On Wednesday, a coalition of media-justice groups and labor unions petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to deny the merger of Nexstar Media Inc. with TEGNA Inc.
www.freepress.net
January 1, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Thanks @uccmediajustice.org, @newsguild.org, @nabetcwa.bsky.social & @publicknowledge.bsky.social for joining @freepress.bsky.social to stop this conglomerate merger.
Like I say when Brendan Carr talks about defending localism: these giant chains are local broadcasters like CVS is a local pharmacy.
Like I say when Brendan Carr talks about defending localism: these giant chains are local broadcasters like CVS is a local pharmacy.
The Trump administration consists of a bunch of Neanderthals.
January 1, 2026 at 6:01 AM
The Trump administration consists of a bunch of Neanderthals.
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🥳 Welcome to the Public Domain: creative works from 1930 & sound recordings published in 1925! Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has highlighted some of the most anticipated works entering the #publicdomain in 2026!
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January 1, 2026 at 5:02 AM
🥳 Welcome to the Public Domain: creative works from 1930 & sound recordings published in 1925! Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has highlighted some of the most anticipated works entering the #publicdomain in 2026!
More ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
@dukelaw.bsky.social
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How on earth, indeed. 🤔
Some of my 📚 have included 50+ photos. I've spent *entire summers* tracking down rights holders + handling clearances. Every copyrighted graphic in 100+ articles and chapters: all researched, cleared, and, in most cases, *paid for*. That's a ton of time, expertise, effort, and (unrecouped) 💰.
“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work.”
From May 2025: www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
From May 2025: www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
January 1, 2026 at 2:24 AM
How on earth, indeed. 🤔
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Jack Smith in just-released House Committee interview … about Trump:
“The attack that happened at the Capitol … does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit”
youtu.be/1NOVLkzycPI?...
“The attack that happened at the Capitol … does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit”
youtu.be/1NOVLkzycPI?...
Jack Smith in House Cmte interview re: Trump: “Attack.. at the Capitol does not happen without him”
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports
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December 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Jack Smith in just-released House Committee interview … about Trump:
“The attack that happened at the Capitol … does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit”
youtu.be/1NOVLkzycPI?...
“The attack that happened at the Capitol … does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit”
youtu.be/1NOVLkzycPI?...
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"The US can destroy a European's life with the swipe of a pen. This week's US sanctions against European lawmakers and privacy activists is a major escalation. And it shows the dangers of Europe relying on American economic infrastructure." davekeating.substack.com/p/the-us-can...
December 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"The US can destroy a European's life with the swipe of a pen. This week's US sanctions against European lawmakers and privacy activists is a major escalation. And it shows the dangers of Europe relying on American economic infrastructure." davekeating.substack.com/p/the-us-can...
Great list of insightful essays and reflections on topical issues in the last year over at the @lpeblog.bsky.social. Good on the @lpeproject.bsky.social for developing and maintaining this valuable contribution to public scholarship.
I'm happy to have contributed to two of the ten most-read posts on the @lpeblog.bsky.social in 2025 -- even as I wish I hadn't had to write them!
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Our Most Read Posts of 2025
Exactly what it says on the tin. Revisit the entries from the past year that readers turned to the most.
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December 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Great list of insightful essays and reflections on topical issues in the last year over at the @lpeblog.bsky.social. Good on the @lpeproject.bsky.social for developing and maintaining this valuable contribution to public scholarship.
Media convergence 1.0, circa 1930s. Remember, AT&T a decade earlier had 2 stations in a planned national American Broadcasting System network. It also leveraged its key role in rewiring movie studios & theatres for sound to became one of the largest financiers of Hollywood movies in the 1930s.
December 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Media convergence 1.0, circa 1930s. Remember, AT&T a decade earlier had 2 stations in a planned national American Broadcasting System network. It also leveraged its key role in rewiring movie studios & theatres for sound to became one of the largest financiers of Hollywood movies in the 1930s.
Nice gem of a list of people with keen insights on living in our weird and fraught times.
fresh audio product:
some of the best of 2025: Emile Torres, Quinn Slobodian, Femi Taiwo, Kristin Du Mez, Anatol Lieven, Laleh Khalili, Susannah Glickman
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
some of the best of 2025: Emile Torres, Quinn Slobodian, Femi Taiwo, Kristin Du Mez, Anatol Lieven, Laleh Khalili, Susannah Glickman
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
December 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Nice gem of a list of people with keen insights on living in our weird and fraught times.
I found this beneath the Christmas 🎄. Its a big, bold attempt to trace the history, geography, and political, social and cultural forces that gave rise to capitalism over the past 1000 years, and not just in one region of the world but many scattered and interconnected places.
December 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I found this beneath the Christmas 🎄. Its a big, bold attempt to trace the history, geography, and political, social and cultural forces that gave rise to capitalism over the past 1000 years, and not just in one region of the world but many scattered and interconnected places.
Canada, a beacon of freedom who shines brighter against the thickening darkness of Trump's Amerika.
A poignant editorial cartoon for Boxing Day (h/t @dennisgoris.bsky.social )
Editorial cartoonist @dennisgoris.bsky.social is exceptional.
Please follow and share (&credit his work).
Please follow and share (&credit his work).
December 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Canada, a beacon of freedom who shines brighter against the thickening darkness of Trump's Amerika.
Tech oligarchs, finance and Trump tighten ties, ICYMI: Trump Media & Tech to merge with Google & Goldman Sachs backed TAE Technologies. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump Media to merge with fusion energy firm in $6bn deal
The company behind President Trump's Truth Social platform makes a surprising move into the energy sector.
www.bbc.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Tech oligarchs, finance and Trump tighten ties, ICYMI: Trump Media & Tech to merge with Google & Goldman Sachs backed TAE Technologies. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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trump admin sanctions are outrageous and purposeful:
1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda.
2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness
3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech
1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda.
2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness
3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech
The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax.
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov
December 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
trump admin sanctions are outrageous and purposeful:
1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda.
2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness
3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech
1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda.
2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness
3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech
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The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax.
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov
December 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax.
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full: