How is Canadian media's platform dependence evolving? A closer look at the online news act's effects [r-libre/3827]

Lamoureux, Samuel (Jul 2025). How is Canadian media's platform dependence evolving? A closer look at the online news act's effects. Paper presented at the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Singapour, Singapour.

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Item Type:	Conference papers (unpublished)
Refereed:	Yes
Status:	Unpublished
Abstract:	From a perspective inspired by the political economy of communication and platform studies, this paper examines how the power relations between platforms and news media have changed in Canada since the adoption of the online news act. We will particularly focused on the concept of platform dependency: according to Poell, Nieborg and Duffy (2021), digital producers are platform-dependent when they rely on platforms to create, distribute, market and monetize their content and services. In the months following the bill's adoption, Canadian and Quebec journalistic organizations denounced Meta and its contestation of the bill in their public speeches. According to recent studies, these actions convinced a third of Canadians to change their information habits, notably by returning to mainstream media websites (Brin and Charlton, 2024). On the other hand, several researchers, including Dwayne Winseck (2022), also criticized the regulators for their lack of vision in the very creation of the bill, which did not tackle the root of the problem in their view (monopolistic control of advertising market, cross-market consolidation, personal data harvesting). But while we know a lot about how the journalistic profession and experts reacted, we still know very little about how platforms adapted to Canadian regulations.
Official URL:	https://iamcr.org/singapore2025
Depositor:	Lamoureux, Samuel
Owner / Manager:	Samuel Lamoureux
Deposited:	13 Aug 2025 14:12
Last Modified:	13 Aug 2025 14:12

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