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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Mediamorphis
@mediamorphis.bsky.social
· Dec 12
Canada's network media economy: Growth, concentration and upheaval, 1984-2023
A report produced by the Canadian research team of the Global Media and Internet Research Project
Welcome to this year's report, which has been completely overhauled from previous versions and now co...
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The 2024 edition of "Canada's Network Media Economy: Growth, Concentration & Upheaval, 1984-2023" was released today. It's part of the 38 country, SSHRC-supported Global Media & Internet Concentration Project. gmicp.org/canadas-netw... 1/
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1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.
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Everybody Attending White Nationalist Conference Caught on Film
Advertised near-exclusively in white nationalist online spaces, promotional social media posts for the event include symbolism popular with neo-Nazis, including the kolovrat sun wheel and a table with...
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.
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This looks terrific. I'm looking forward to diving in to see what these excellent group of scholars is up to.
Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social
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November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
This looks terrific. I'm looking forward to diving in to see what these excellent group of scholars is up to.
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Tim Davie leaves the BBC with his mission almost accomplished.
That mission, of course, was to destroy the BBC.
That mission, of course, was to destroy the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Tim Davie leaves the BBC with his mission almost accomplished.
That mission, of course, was to destroy the BBC.
That mission, of course, was to destroy the BBC.
This was a good read. It's focus on the boomerang effect reminds Americans that imperial adventures are: not new, pushed most aggressively by hardline factions of conservatives, industrialists & finance, and redound badly on the US itself and its people. Also See Chalmers on 'blowback'.
Did I use my newsletter for some self-promotion? Yes. Am I also making the urgent case that Trump is returning to an early-20th Century style of militarized imperialism at home and abroad? Also yes. Do I wish my book was a lot less relevant? Every day.
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It wasn't supposed to be a playbook!
Glad everyone's enjoying my history of American empire. Please stop reenacting it.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This was a good read. It's focus on the boomerang effect reminds Americans that imperial adventures are: not new, pushed most aggressively by hardline factions of conservatives, industrialists & finance, and redound badly on the US itself and its people. Also See Chalmers on 'blowback'.
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"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
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Important work by @skynewsrss.bsky.social proving - as many of us have experienced - that X’s algorithm is systematically boosting far-right and extreme content in the UK, confirming similar findings elsewhere.
Governments must act before it’s too late.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Governments must act before it’s too late.
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How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
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November 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Important work by @skynewsrss.bsky.social proving - as many of us have experienced - that X’s algorithm is systematically boosting far-right and extreme content in the UK, confirming similar findings elsewhere.
Governments must act before it’s too late.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Governments must act before it’s too late.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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ICYMI: On 2026 and how to subvert the status quo from within.
Unions, Lawsuits and Whistleblowers: Public Sector Leadership from Below
Excited to share my piece for the @mtlaiethics.bsky.social's State of AI Ethics Report on AI in Government: Public Sector Leadership and Implementation.
montrealethics.ai/state/
Excited to share my piece for the @mtlaiethics.bsky.social's State of AI Ethics Report on AI in Government: Public Sector Leadership and Implementation.
montrealethics.ai/state/
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
ICYMI: On 2026 and how to subvert the status quo from within.
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First time holding my book 🥹 Thanks UCLA!
November 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
First time holding my book 🥹 Thanks UCLA!
This looks terrific. 👇👇👇 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747326...
America, América by Greg Grandin: 9780593831250 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A New York Times bestseller • A finalist for the 2025 Kirkus Prize, 2025 Cundill History Prize, and 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction “An extraordinarily ambitious book...
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November 8, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This looks terrific. 👇👇👇 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747326...
More media consolidation in the wings, this time in the UK, as ITV engages in talks with Comcast-owned Sky Ltd. for £1.6 billion. ITV has never been the same since blowing itself up in the mid-2000s. www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
More media consolidation in the wings, this time in the UK, as ITV engages in talks with Comcast-owned Sky Ltd. for £1.6 billion. ITV has never been the same since blowing itself up in the mid-2000s. www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article...
O'Leary's just another pompous buffoon. Too bad that he's Canadian. Let him continue pandering to Trump and be an annoying prat here, but glad that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is paying him no mind.
Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
O'Leary's just another pompous buffoon. Too bad that he's Canadian. Let him continue pandering to Trump and be an annoying prat here, but glad that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is paying him no mind.
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Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
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"This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have too long been placed at odds with one another. We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about."
Perhaps Z's most radical AND pragmatic line last night.
Perhaps Z's most radical AND pragmatic line last night.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have too long been placed at odds with one another. We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about."
Perhaps Z's most radical AND pragmatic line last night.
Perhaps Z's most radical AND pragmatic line last night.
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Le professeur Armand Mattelart, grand penseur critique de la communication, vient de nous quitter Je ne l'ai jamais rencontré, mais ses livres analysant les stratégies des multinationales, dàs la fin des années 1970, ont joué un rôle fondamentam dans l'orientation de mes propres recherches.
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Le professeur Armand Mattelart, grand penseur critique de la communication, vient de nous quitter Je ne l'ai jamais rencontré, mais ses livres analysant les stratégies des multinationales, dàs la fin des années 1970, ont joué un rôle fondamentam dans l'orientation de mes propres recherches.
Medicine, my friend, does not bind a nation like geography.
Interesting tidbit in the federal budget: $1 million/year for Canadian Geographic. It's a perfectly fine publication (although not what it once was), but it already receives support through the Canada Periodical Fund. Why extra money for CanGeo and not, say, the Canadian Medical Association Journal?
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Medicine, my friend, does not bind a nation like geography.
FIFA boss has his face up Trump's ass. The transnational elite class consists of a bunch of losers from the highest ranks of finance, industry, sports, media, political parties, and government. None seem to have any sense of shame.
FIFA, soccer’s international governing body, said it will begin bestowing an annual peace prize.
The inaugural award will be presented to an as-yet-unnamed honoree at the draw next month for the 2026 men’s World Cup.
The inaugural award will be presented to an as-yet-unnamed honoree at the draw next month for the 2026 men’s World Cup.
As Trump-Infantino bond tightens, FIFA announces inaugural peace prize
The soccer governing body’s president has frequently spent time with President Donald Trump this year. The award will be presented at December’s World Cup draw in D.C.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:18 AM
FIFA boss has his face up Trump's ass. The transnational elite class consists of a bunch of losers from the highest ranks of finance, industry, sports, media, political parties, and government. None seem to have any sense of shame.
"Hungary has served as a model for other “illiberal democracies”.... Trump & his allies have long praised Orbán’s Hungary even as it plunges in press freedom rankings. In 2022, Orbán told...US conservatives...that the path to power req'd “having their own media”. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Shock as Orbán allies take ownership of Hungary’s most-read newspaper
Blikk, a tabloid with about 3 million online monthly readers, bought by pro-Orbán media group Indamedia
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November 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"Hungary has served as a model for other “illiberal democracies”.... Trump & his allies have long praised Orbán’s Hungary even as it plunges in press freedom rankings. In 2022, Orbán told...US conservatives...that the path to power req'd “having their own media”. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Mamdani speaks with conviction and clarity after winning NYC mayoral race: "we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism not with the strength it fears not the appeasement it craves" (15:55 to 16:10). More of this please. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/05/p...
Watch Zohran Mamdani’s full speech after NYC Mayor win | CNN Politics
Democratic State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani delivered a speech to a roarous crowd in NYC after a historic win.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Mamdani speaks with conviction and clarity after winning NYC mayoral race: "we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism not with the strength it fears not the appeasement it craves" (15:55 to 16:10). More of this please. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/05/p...
What @adamserwer.bsky.social says about US elites being chickenshit in the face of the clownish autocrat Trump applies to elites the world over. This includes the leadership in the Liberal Govt of Canada and PM Carney who go out of their way to ingratiate themselves with the orange buffoon.
I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
What @adamserwer.bsky.social says about US elites being chickenshit in the face of the clownish autocrat Trump applies to elites the world over. This includes the leadership in the Liberal Govt of Canada and PM Carney who go out of their way to ingratiate themselves with the orange buffoon.
Canada's Prime Minister Carney needs to hear this message, as does every other supplicant bending the knee to the ludicrous and laughable DJ Trump
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Canada's Prime Minister Carney needs to hear this message, as does every other supplicant bending the knee to the ludicrous and laughable DJ Trump
The incomparable French Belgian communication scholar Armand Mattelart has passed away. His work had a major impact in our field and his Mapping World Communication (1994) fundamentally changed how I see the world & the place of communication in it. Rest in Power! www.upress.umn.edu/978081662262...
Mapping World Communication
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November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The incomparable French Belgian communication scholar Armand Mattelart has passed away. His work had a major impact in our field and his Mapping World Communication (1994) fundamentally changed how I see the world & the place of communication in it. Rest in Power! www.upress.umn.edu/978081662262...
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Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
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This is why we can’t have nice things
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
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November 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
This is why we can’t have nice things
Rudi has thoughts.
November 1, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Rudi has thoughts.
Problem w/ these stories is they mix units of analysis. 500 ml of water is 0.5 litres. It's a lot, but.... Microsoft will invest $1B in data centres. Wow! Telus says it will invest $70 Billion on network upgrades from now to 2029. Big #s, w/ no sense of scale=unhelpful. www.telus.com/en/about/new...
November 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Problem w/ these stories is they mix units of analysis. 500 ml of water is 0.5 litres. It's a lot, but.... Microsoft will invest $1B in data centres. Wow! Telus says it will invest $70 Billion on network upgrades from now to 2029. Big #s, w/ no sense of scale=unhelpful. www.telus.com/en/about/new...