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Handbook of Media and Communication Governance
This state-of-the-art Handbook provides unique insights into the governance practices and institutions shaping digitalized public spheres. Focusing on the power relations involved, it presents diverse approaches to key debates in media and communication governance, showcasing groundbreaking advances in the field.
This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
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This state-of-the-art Handbook provides unique insights into the governance practices and institutions shaping digitalized public spheres. Focusing on the power relations involved, it presents diverse approaches to key debates in media and communication governance, showcasing groundbreaking advances in the field.
Contributing authors explore the impact of long-standing trends such as commercialization, digitalization and transnationalization on media and communication governance, highlighting urgent new developments including algorithmization and datafication. Combining theoretical inquiry with cutting-edge empirical analysis, they address governance challenges at the regional, national and global levels to provide a broad view of the social ordering of media systems. Ultimately, the Handbook explores how to protect the public sphere in the digital age and ensure that media organizations and platforms meet democratic expectations.
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this Handbook is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of media and communication studies, digital governance and platform studies. It will also be of interest to policymakers seeking to develop effective regulatory systems for the modern media and communications environment.
Contributing authors explore the impact of long-standing trends such as commercialization, digitalization and transnationalization on media and communication governance, highlighting urgent new developments including algorithmization and datafication. Combining theoretical inquiry with cutting-edge empirical analysis, they address governance challenges at the regional, national and global levels to provide a broad view of the social ordering of media systems. Ultimately, the Handbook explores how to protect the public sphere in the digital age and ensure that media organizations and platforms meet democratic expectations.
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this Handbook is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of media and communication studies, digital governance and platform studies. It will also be of interest to policymakers seeking to develop effective regulatory systems for the modern media and communications environment.
Critical Acclaim
‘A timely intervention that successfully combines an effort in consolidating a field of study that has grown increasingly diverse over the past three decades, with the ambition to articulate communication governance – its modes, challenges and core values – so as to investigate power relations and address a fundamental question: “whose interests should take precedence when new approaches to governing the digital ecology are put in place?”’
– Claudia Padovani, University of Padova, Italy
‘These three eminent scholars have assembled a diverse array of leading policy thinkers to grapple with many of the most daunting challenges facing media governance today. By establishing clear theoretical and methodological foundations, the Handbook promises to become a field-defining classic within the growing literature on communication policy, providing an invaluable resource for students and researchers alike.’
– Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania, US
– Claudia Padovani, University of Padova, Italy
‘These three eminent scholars have assembled a diverse array of leading policy thinkers to grapple with many of the most daunting challenges facing media governance today. By establishing clear theoretical and methodological foundations, the Handbook promises to become a field-defining classic within the growing literature on communication policy, providing an invaluable resource for students and researchers alike.’
– Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania, US
