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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Political economy of media"”.
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Essays in political economy of media and communication
This thesis consists of three chapters on the role of media and communication in forming political opinions of news consumers and politicians. In the first chapter, I study the causal link between the public's self-selective exposure to like-minded partisan media and polarization. I first present a …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Media and Information Manipulation
<p>The last two decades have seen an emergence of a new regime type, called mixed regimes, whose democratically elected leaders have slowly eroded institutions of accountability. Unlike democratic breakdowns, such erosions take place in incremental steps, which create uncertainties about what the …
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A Family Affair: The Political Economy of Media Ownership in the Republic of Korea (1998-2012)
This dissertation investigates the nature of Korean media giants among members of Asian media conglomerates in the era of media marketization. Since the 1980s, each state in Asia has adopted neoliberal media laws and policies that have made its media systems more market-driven. This neoliberal …
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Sweating for democracy: working-class media and the struggle for 'hegemonic Jewishness,' 1919-1941
Using the framework of political economy of media, this dissertation examines the history of the Jewish working class counterpublic in the United States during the interwar period and its relationships to the broader public sphere. Between 1919 and 1941, organic intellectuals, such as B.C. Vladeck, …
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Understanding Web 3.0 - the Semantic Web : how the evolution to a third generation of the Web will impact upon the Internet and media environment within a global and South African context
This thesis examines the potential evolution of the current version of the Internet, popularly referred to as Web 2.0, to a third generation of the Web, referred to as the Semantic Web or Web 3.0. The paper provides an overview of the change in architecture and structure that the current version of …
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THE CRISIS OF LOCAL JOURNALISM: DEATH BY A THOUSAND PAPER CUTS
The decline of local journalism in the United States represents a critical threat to democratic governance. Nearly one-fifth of Americans live in news deserts – which are communities with limited or no access to reliable local news. Predicated on this threat, we draw upon the political economy of …
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The Decolonization of the Political Economy of New Media Institutions in Africa: A Case Study on the Pan-African Film Industry
This study critically analyses an alternative political economy framework to observe the decolonization of new media institutions in Africa. This is because "critically analysing media organisations and media processes in society have come from political economy perspectives." (Jansen, 2003, p. …
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The Dutch Media Monopoly: A critical-historical analysis of journalism in the Netherlands
Taking the American tradition of political economy of the news media as a starting point, this dissertation examines Dutch journalism throughout the twentieth century, with a focus on the present. The argument is that the conclusion drawn by American scholars like Ben Bagdikian, Robert McChesney, …
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On unregulated markets and the freedom of media the transition of the East German press after 1989
… in research, literature and our understanding of transitioning media in post-socialist countries. It tells the fascinating and complicated story of a press moving from state control to a Western free press model. The focus lies on the German Democratic Republic (GDR) between the fall of the …