Transnationalization of media and governance

Katharina Kleinen- von Königslöw and Hartmut Wessler

Chapter 11 in Handbook of Media and Communication Governance, 2024, pp 141-153 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In the digital age, the media landscape has thoroughly transnationalized due to the dominance of global information intermediaries (such as Google, Facebook or TikTok) as well as the increased transnational reach of a number of news providers. In this chapter, we draw on public sphere theory to investigate more closely the tension between this highly transnationalized hybrid information media system and current attempts at media governance. We identify three problem areas - incivility, disinformation and distorted perceptions of opinion climates - which traditional approaches in public sphere theory have failed to address adequately, but which have grown in severity due to media transnationalization. Based on the well-established distinction between a representative-liberal, communitarian, deliberative and agonistic model of a public sphere, we provide a first sketch of how these normative models might guide future attempts of media governance to foster a greater resilience of national and transnational public spheres.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Innovations and Technology; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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