The Great Barbecue

Eben Moglen, The Invisible Barbecue, Columbia Law Review, 1997

Telecommunications Act of 1996, P.L. 104-104, February 8, 1996. The whole bill is plenty of reading. Please read at least the CRS summary.

Bob Dole, Giving Away the Airwaves, March 27, 1997

Bill Carter, F.C.C. Eases Limits on TV Station Ownership, New York Times, August 6, 1999

Major Broadcasters Form Alliance to Provide Wireless Web Content, New York Times, March 8, 2000

Patricia Nelson Limerick, Of Forty-Niners, Oilmen and the Dot-Com Boom, New York Times, May 5, 2000

Steven Labaton, Communications Lobby Puts Full-Court Press on Congress, New York Times, October 24, 2000

Stephen Labaton, Appellate Court Eases Limitations for Media Giants, New York Times, February 20, 2002

Sweepings From the Market for Eyeballs

Alex Kantrowitz, The Campaign Against Facebook And Google's Ad "Duopoly" Is Going Nowhere, Buzzfeed, August 2, 2017

John Tagliabue, Europe Offering Free Calls, But First, a Word From . . ., New York Times, September 28, 1997

Saul Hansell and Amy Harmon, Caveat Emptor on the Web: Ad and Editorial Lines Blur, New York Times, February 26, 1999

Stephanie Clifford, Newspapers’ Web Revenue Is Stalling, New York Times, October 12, 2008

Mike Isaac Can Reddit Grow Up?, New York Times, July 27, 2014

Josh Constine, BuzzFeed’s Future Depends On Convincing Us Ads Aren’t Ads, Tech Crunch, August 12, 2014

This might be interesting for students. A talk by Aral Balkan on venture capital, facebook and online social media.

https://projectbullrun.org/surveillance/2015/video-2015.html#balkan

And while you're at it, the talk of Daniel D. Bernstein might be interesting too. He discusses the position of telecommunication providers. One layer below the social network services.

-- CastIronClub - 21 Sep 2015