{"id":7816,"date":"2018-03-26T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=7816"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:00","slug":"big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/26\/big-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Big Tech\u2019 isn\u2019t one big monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concern\u00a0about Facebook\u2019s power in society \u2013 and in politics \u2013 has skyrocketed in the wake of\u00a0revelations\u00a0that users\u2019 data was used in targeted political ads in advance of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Other tech giants have also sparked concern:\u00a0Google,\u00a0Apple,\u00a0Amazon, and\u00a0Microsoft\u00a0have all faced objections from users, the public, and even government agencies. But in <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/big-tech-isnt-one-big-monopoly-its-5-companies-all-in-different-businesses-92791\">a recent article<\/a>, <strong>Amanda Lotz<\/strong>, professor of media studies at U-M, suggests that\u00a0lumping them together hides the fact they\u2019re very separate and distinct \u2013 not just as companies, but in terms of their business models and practices.\u00a0&#8220;It\u2019s not that these companies are so different as to be unrelated or incomparable to each other.\u00a0But despite simple perception of them all as &#8216;tech&#8217;\u00a0companies, their core revenue sources are clearly different,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;And those distinctions suggest ways people can understand and respond to anxieties about their growing economic and cultural influence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7819\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7819\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7819\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tech-monopy.jpg\" alt=\"Monopoly rich man character holding money bags surrounded by tech logos\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tech-monopy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tech-monopy-125x83.jpg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tech-monopy-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">( The Conversation, CC BY-NC)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concern\u00a0about Facebook\u2019s power in society \u2013 and in politics \u2013 has skyrocketed in the wake of\u00a0revelations\u00a0that users\u2019 data was used in targeted political ads in advance of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Other tech giants have also sparked concern:\u00a0Google,\u00a0Apple,\u00a0Amazon, and\u00a0Microsoft\u00a0have all faced objections from users, the public, and even government agencies. But in a recent article, Amanda Lotz,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/26\/big-tech\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[178,217,43],"class_list":["post-7816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-business","tag-culture","tag-data"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tech-monopy.jpg",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tech-monopy-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tech-monopy-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tech-monopy.jpg",600,400,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tech-monopy.jpg",600,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tech-monopy.jpg",600,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tech-monopy.jpg",600,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tech-monopy-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tech-monopy-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tech-monopy-600x300.jpg",600,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tech-monopy.jpg",600,400,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tech-monopy.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Concern\u00a0about Facebook\u2019s power in society \u2013 and in politics \u2013 has skyrocketed in the wake of\u00a0revelations\u00a0that users\u2019 data was used in targeted political ads in advance of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Other tech giants have also sparked concern:\u00a0Google,\u00a0Apple,\u00a0Amazon, and\u00a0Microsoft\u00a0have all faced objections from users, the public, and even government agencies. 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