This is a critical study of the changing relationship between media and marketing
communications in the digital age. It examines the growth of content funded by brands …

The US rural–urban digital divide has been a policy concern for more than a decade. The
issue has intensified with the COVID-19 pandemic and the requirement that people live …

An analysis of the failure of US broadband policy to solve the rural–urban digital divide, with
a proposal for a new national rural broadband plan. As much of daily life migrates online …

Collecting and analyzing policy and industry documents is a basic part of most media policy
research. The convenience of using existing material produced by public or private …

With illegal downloading at the centre of debates about the creative economy, various policy
initiatives and regulatory attempts have tried (and largely failed) to control, persuade and …

Contributing to a rethink of Public Service Media, this book combines theoretical insights
and legal frameworks with practice, examining theory and policy development in a bottom …

This study offers a systematic qualitative investigation inside a news and broadband desert.
Despite popular attention to the ramifications of limitations of local news and internet access …

This study adopts a multiple-case study design to address 'Does copyright law protect
automated news, and if so, how'in three jurisdictions: the United States, the European Union …

From threatening protestors to cutting diversity office funding on college campuses, one
contemporary brand of policymaking has overtly sought to undermine social justice efforts in …

Global platforms have radically changed institutional dynamics within the media industry. In
this study, we explore how national media organisations manoeuvre in an increasingly …