Digital media and digital media systems

Laia Castro and Sina Blassnig

Chapter 13 in Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions, 2024, pp 205-214 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: To date, only a handful of studies have empirically investigated media systems in the digital age, often focusing on new citizens’ online media use as a central dimension for comparison. Stemming from traditional approaches to the study of media systems, in this chapter we review the latest efforts to measure digital media systems. In particular, we account for how the emergence of information and communication technologies shape such systems and how recent studies operationalize the relevant dimensions to compare them. We furthermore point at future research avenues for comparative digital media research. In particular, we posit that there is a need for new and refined indicators mirroring the latest transnational and national efforts to regulate social media platforms as distributors of news and political information, as well as for more comprehensive country samples beyond ‘the West’ and longitudinal analyses able to capture over-time trends in the production, distribution of, and access to online news.

Keywords: Politics; and; Public; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781803929095.00021 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:21846_13

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().