Handbook of Media and Communication Governance

Edited by Manuel Puppis, Professor of Media Structures and Governance, Department of Communication and Media Research DCM, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Robin Mansell, Professor Emerita, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and Hilde Van den Bulck, Professor of Media and Communication, Department of Communication, Drexel University, Philadelphia, US

‘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?”’

• ContentsPreface xv1 Introduction to media and communication governance: from labellingto theorizing and practice 1Manuel Puppis, Robin Mansell and Hilde Van den BulckPART I THEORIZING GOVERNANCE2 Sociological institutionalism: conceptualizing media governance asinstitution and organization 28Manuel Puppis3 Historical institutionalism 40Sara Bannerman and Bradley McNeil4 Discursive institutionalism 50Sarah Anne Ganter and Maria Löblich5 Critical political economy: inside or outside the tent? 61Peter A. Thompson6 The political economies of communication, ‘big tech’ and culturalindustries from the ‘industrial age’ to the ‘internet era’ 73Dwayne Winseck7 Co-evolution: applications and implications for governance research incommunication studies 88Johannes M. Bauer and Michael Latzer8 Theories of the policy process 100Kari Steen-Johnsen and Vilde Schanke Sundet9 Critical discourse analysis and telecommunications policy: the myth oftechnological neutrality 112Christopher AliPART II CHALLENGES FOR GOVERNANCE10 The independence of media regulatory authorities ‘on the books’ and‘on the ground’ 126Kristina Irion11 Transnationalization of media and governance 141Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw and Hartmut Wessler12 Done is better than perfect: evidence, governance, power and platformregulation 154Leighton Andrews13 Participatory and collaborative governance 166Aphra Kerr14 Diversity in governance 179Tamara Shepherd15 Anticolonial world-making: racial justice and global communicationgovernance 191Paula Chakravartty and Charli MullerPART III GOVERNANCE FORMS AND LEVELS16 Realigning incentives through formal media, communications andplatform governance 203Robin Mansell17 Governance through a crisis: media regulation in nondemocratic systems 220Gregory Asmolov18 Ants among elephants: regulatory challenges in countries withoutglobally dominant players 233Peng Hwa Ang and Swati Maheshwari19 Industry-level self- and co-regulation in media and communications 247Florian Saurwein, Alena Birrer and Danya He20 Private ordering of media organisations and platform operators 262Tobias Mast, Matthias C. Kettemann and Wolfgang Schulz21 Media accountability and ethics in Africa 276Herman Wasserman22 Governance by technological design, a critique 287João C. Magalhães23 Multi-level governance 300Hilde Van den Bulck24 European media governance: the EU and the Council of Europe 314Damian Tambini25 Global media and communication governance: the role of nation states 331Julia PohlePART IV GOVERNANCE AND RIGHTS26 Communication rights, liberalism and the good life 345Andrew Calabrese27 Communication rights and capabilities 360Amit M. Schejter and Baruch Shomron28 Governing mediation in the data ecosystem: lessons from mediagovernance for overcoming data asymmetries 374Stefaan Verhulst29 Data privacy 386Ine Van Zeeland and Jo Pierson30 Governing media and communications diversity in the digital age 400Fiona R. Martin and Tim Koskie31 Children vs adults: negotiating UNCRC General comment No. 25 onchildren’s rights in the digital environment 417Sonia Livingstone, Amanda Third and Gerison LansdownPART V GOVERNING ISSUES32 Media literacy governance 433Joyce Vissenberg and Leen d’Haenens33 Resistance and the limits of media literacy in countering disinformation(in transitional media systems) 447Shakuntala Banaji34 Media power and ownership concentration 461Natascha Just, Alena Birrer and Danya He35 Competition law and regulation 475Maria Michalis36 Towards a new sense of purpose? Core shifts in audiovisual industry support 489Tim Raats and Stephanie Tintel37 Deplatforming and deplatformization as governance strategies 503José van Dijck, Tim de Winkel and Mirko Tobias Schäfer38 Accessible censorship 517Nathan Dobson and Nicole Stremlau39 AI, big data and bias: governing datafication through a data justice lens 529Arne Hintz40 Platforms in the Global South 541Ram Bhat41 Environmental sustainability 555Gynna Farith Millan Franco and Toby Miller42 Spectrum governance and 5G wireless 571Gregory Taylor43 Communication infrastructure and networks 586Seamus Simpson