The second edition of The Political Economy of Communication substantially revises and
updates the 1996 first edition. I decided to write this book because the field has grown …

Community media journalists are, in essence,'filling in the gaps' left by mainstream news
outlets. Forde's extensive 10 year study now develops an understanding of the journalistic …

Drawing on current theoretical debates in journalism studies, and grounded in empirical
research, Heinrich here analyzes the interplay between journalistic practice and processes …

The “information have-less” is a social, economic, and political category for millions of rural-
to-urban migrants and laid-off workers, who populate the vast gray zone of China's digital …

The origins of this book lie in the Masters programme in Journalism Studies at Cardiff
University developed in the 1980s by Geoff Mungham and Don Rowlands. This brought …

Daryl Copeland charts the course for a new kind of diplomacy, one in tune with the demands
of today's interconnected, technology driven world. Eschewing platitudes and broadly …

Many of the world's deadliest conflicts are largely ignored-becoming off-the-radar'stealth
conflicts'. How can this be possible in a world with unprecedented levels of access to …

Similarly, some scholars have preferred to examine the potential impact of new digital media
on political participation and democratic struggles in Africa (L. Moyo 2009; D. Moyo 2009) …

International news‐flow research has repeatedly identified significant imbalances in the
global exchange of news among regions of the world. With the emergence of thousands of …

This seminal work is the first comprehensive analysis of the media landscape in the
Mediterranean island of Malta. It examines the media owned by political parties, trade …