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Die Finanzierung von Desinformation: Ein Überblick über Akteure, Profiteure und deren Infrastruktur
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2025), 42 pp.
"Desinformation und Verschwörungstheorien haben in den letzten Jahren deutlich Aufschwung erhalten, da ihre Verbreitung in den sozialen Medien und anderen Online Plattformen sehr schnell und effektiv sein kann. In zurückliegenden Jahren hat die Europäische Union einige neue Gesetzesgrundlagen ges
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Política, negocios y periodismo: 80 años de Clarín
Bernal: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (2025), 192 pp.
"Durante muchos años, la clase política argentina convivió con el mito que planteaba que ningún gobierno soportaba cuatro tapas críticas del diario Clarín. El periódico había alcanzado tiradas de una magnitud que lo ubicaban en un lugar central de la vida cotidiana de los argentinos. Cuando
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Contesting Copyright: A History of Intellectual Property in East Central Europe and the Balkans
Deep Insights
New York: Central European University Press (2025), xxi, 481 pp.
"The creative sector, including the cultural industry, is key for today’s economy. Copyright has the capacity to x the roles and tasks of the actors involved and determine the direction of cash ows within this sector. The study of the evolution of copyright helps understand and adjust the regulati
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African Radio and Minority Languages: Participation and Representation
London; New York: Routledge (2025), 96 pp.
"Within Africa, radio provides an important platform for accommodating diverse linguistic groups and enabling speakers to express themselves in their own local languages. This book investigates how radio broadcasting across the continent provides a platform for the cultural participation and the rep
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Digital and Social Media in Africa
London: University of Westminster Press (2025), xi, 194 pp.
"This book provides case studies on the strategies used by African governments in monitoring and controlling digital and social media, as well as the implications of such actions for claims about media freedom and freedom of expression. Further, the book examines the human rights challenges posed by
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Media, Economy and Society: A Critical Introduction
London; New York: Routledge (2024), vi, 459 pp.
"This essential guide to the critical study of the media economy in society teaches students how to critically analyse the political economy of communication and the media. The book introduces a variety of methods and topics, including the political economy of communication in capitalism, the politi
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Free to Hate: How Media Liberalization Enabled Right-Wing Populism in Post-1989 Bulgaria
Champaign: University of Illinois Press (2023), 391 pp.
"Martin Marinos applies a critical political economy approach to place Bulgarian right-wing populism within the structural transformation of the country’s media institutions. As Marinos shows, media concentration under Western giants like Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and News Corporation have l
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The Political Economy of Mainstream Television Channels in Ethiopia: Perspectives from Ownership and Regulations
Observatorio (OBS*) Journal, volume 17, issue 3 (2023), pp. 74-96
"The main objective of this article was to explore the political economy of mainstream TV channels in Ethiopia from the perspective of ownership and regulations. The study used a qualitative approach to document analysis. It also conducted an in-depth interviews with randomly selected media monitori
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Media Capture in Russia: An Expensive Venture. A Financial Analysis of Key Russian Media Companies
London: Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) (2023), 26 pp.
"Russia’s three media giants, Gazprom Media Holding, National Media Group, and VGTRK, are interconnected through an ownership structure where the state remains the primary beneficiary. Shareholding links and the Kremlin’s personal ties demonstrate how the Russian media landscape is captured thro
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The Political Economy of the Media in Sierra Leone and the Potential for Private-Sector Investment
BBC Media Action; PRIMED (2022), 13 pp.
"The purpose of this political economy analysis (PEA) is to understand how political and economic factors have affected, or hindered, the media sector in Sierra Leone as well as the potential for private sector investment in the media [...] The report presents a contextual analysis of the media sect
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Empire and Communications
Toronto: University of Toronto Press (2022), lx, 228 pp.
"Originally published in 1950, Harold A. Innis’s Empire and Communications is considered to be one of the classic works in media studies, yet its origins have received little attention. Ambitious in its scope, the book spans five millennia, tracing a path of development around the globe from 2900
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Strings Attached: Sustainability and Dependence in Five Models of Local and Community Media
Deep Insights
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 7, issue 2 (2022), pp. 179-197
"Sustainability is a key issue for local and community media in the Global South as well as the Global North, albeit in different ways. After identifying significant gaps in the sustainability literature, the article presents and discusses a taxonomy of ‘models’ – the relationships that arise
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Turkey’s Communicative Authoritarianism
Global Media and Communication, volume 16, issue 1 (2022), pp. 102-120
"The majority of current political communication studies focus on discursive dimensions of communications and disregard how communications partake in the governing of populations through economic, material and institutional practices. By focusing on Turkey’s case, here I move beyond this approach
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Economía política de la comunicación y la cultura en América Latina, 1970 y 1980
Buenos Aires: CLACSO (2022), 714 pp.
Access Rules: Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future
Oakland, Cal.: University of California Press (2022), 209 pp.
"Access Rules mounts a strong and hopeful argument for how informational tools at present in the hands of a few could instead become empowering machines for everyone. By forcing data-hoarding companies to open access to their data, we can reinvigorate both our economy and our society. Authors Viktor
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The Politics of Impunity and the Shifting Media Landscape in Kenya
Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, volume 7, issue 1 (2021), pp. 61-78
"This article focuses on state-media relations and the shifts in the overall media landscape in Kenya. Drawing on a political economy approach to media operations in Kenya, it argues that while there are competing meanings over what constitutes "news values", "editorial independence", and "critical
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Overlooking the Political Economy in the Research on Propaganda
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 2, issue special issue (2021), 14 pp.
"A thematic meta-analysis – of recent literature on online propaganda in the context of the Global South, and 20 Facebook-funded research projects in 2018 – shows that research is overwhelmingly focused on the psychological and behavioral impacts of propaganda. This research advocates for promot
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Coronelismo e a propriedade dos meios de comunicação: A influência da mídia no poder político
Videre, volume 13, issue 28 (2021), pp. 385-412
"O presente artigo visa investigar os usos políticos das concessões de rádio para titulares de mandatos eletivos após a redemocratização, tendo como eixo analítico o conceito de coronelismo e sua potencial renovação para o chamado “coronelismo eletrônico". Inicia-se a pesquisa analisando
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Who Owns the Media in Bangladesh?
Dhaka: Center for Governance Studies (CGS) (2021), 57 pp.
"This report documents a snapshot of media ownership in Bangladesh in late 2020 and identifies its major patterns. By no means is this report exhaustive nor does it cover all aspects of ownership of media in Bangladesh. In the absence of baseline data, our primary objective was to build one with the
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Digital Transformations of the Public Arena
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2021), 75 pp.
"Digital technologies have changed the public arena, but there is little scholarly consensus about how they have done so. This Element lays out a new framework for the digitally mediated public arena by identifying structural changes and continuities with the pre-digital era. It examines three count
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