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are there examples of US newsrooms or media outlets who are explicit about *not* tracking readers on their websites? (or tracking for internal use only but not selling data into the data broker tracking stream?)

(yes i know ad tech is bad, and i am asking on behalf of students)

#journalism #privacy #AdTech

in reply to tools for commensality 🧿

thinking about my actual learning goals for the undergrad class this semester (not the horseshit ones i'm forced to put on the syllabus). i want them to know:

- subpoena v. warrant

- what Citizens' United is

- advertising as revenue model for media is doomed to fail us

- ??

in reply to tools for commensality 🧿

ooooh teach them about alternatives to venture backed corporations. Any alternative!!!!
once i realized my students had zero context for @ntnsndr or @rwg or @andresmh 's work on platform cooperatives i launched into the comparative structures, labor relations, governance, financing and micro histories of coops, b-corps, mom and pop shops, shareholder backed corporations and VC backed startups. Easily the most influential mini impromptu lecture i gave in years.
in reply to Cyberlyra

totally. One of the big realizations in my early years teaching is that students actually had never heard of labor organizing. I had to switch from being appalled to seeing it as a wonderful opportunity to teach:)
in reply to Nathan Schneider

i've had that experience too, but this class is a journalism class (media/law) so i can bring that up easily early on and i do.
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