The book offers a critical map to navigate the field of media governance. A thread of cosmopolitan critique connects the fourteen chapters to enhance media governance literature beyond the West and regional foci. The first part addresses the epistemological and ontological flaws in the use and adaptation of media governance. The second part opens pathways for critique and provides a thorough understanding of the ambivalences that scholars encounter when addressing media governance as a field of study. The third part highlights shortcomings like geographical narrowness and tensions in the use of media governance concepts. The scholarly contributions show that media governance as a field of study is far from being established: its conceptualizations are in flux and need scholarly self-reflection, and ongoing discussions need to leave behind universalist conceptualizations and methods of analysis. The chapters reflect on hegemony, power, sovereignty, and identity as conceptual center points in media governance research. The book uniquely breaks with self-referential Western academia and is part of ongoing collaborative scholarly efforts towards epistemic transformation through dialogue.

Sarah Anne Ganter is Assistant Professor of Communication and Cultural Policy in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Her work is influenced by a cosmopolitan approach to academic work, integrating scholarly work from different cultural, linguistic and geographical academic settings She has published widely on media governance, digital policy and regulation, and journalism, and analyzes media and digital policy transformations from a theoretical perspective that focuses on the dynamics and interactions shaping institutional fields. Her work is published in scholarly journals, international book projects, including the co-authored book "The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society."

Hanan Badr is Professor for Public Spheres and Inequalities at the Department of Communication, University of Salzburg, Austria. Her work focuses comparing media systems, diversifying communication research, globalization and digitization transform journalism and She held positions at Freie Universität Berlin, Cairo University, Gulf University for Sciences and Technology and Orient-Institut Beirut. Her work was published in Digital Journalism, International Communication Gazette, Media & Communication and Media, War & Conflict. Hanan won awards including the Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress and the DAAD Scholarship Award. She was elected as a Vice-Chair for the Activism, Communication and Social Change at the International Communication Association and serves as Regional Liasion Coordinator for AEJMC International Communication Division ICD.

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Sarah Anne Ganter (PhD, University of Vienna, 2017) is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Hanan Badr (Dr. phil., Erfurt University 2013) is a media and communication scholar with a focus on comparative media systems, journalism and transformation. She is associate professor at the Gulf University for Sciences and Technology with strong previous research expertise in German and Arab institutions like Freie Universität Berlin, Orient-Institut Beirut, Max Weber Foundation and Cairo University. Contributor biographies Ufuoma Akpojivi is an Associate Professor in Media Studies, at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. His research interests are media policy, democratization, citizenship, new media, and activism. He is a rated researcher of the National Research Foundation, South Africa.

Rasha Allam is an assistant professor and associate chair at the Department Journalism and Mass Communication, is a graduate of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication (BA-2002, MA-2005), School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo.

Sanjay Asthana teaches at the School of Journalism and Strategic Media in Middle Tennessee State University, USA. His areas of interest are media and cultural studies, youth media education, international and global communication. He is the author of Innovative Practices of Youth Participation in Media (UNESCO, 2006), Youth Media Imaginaries from Around the World (Peter Lang, 2012), Palestinian Youth Media and the Pedagogies of Estrangement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), and India's State-Run Media: Broadcasting, Power, and Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Afonso de Albuquerque is a professor at Communication Program, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil. His previous works appeared in Journalism, Media, Culture & Society, and the International Journal of Communication.

Sara S. Elmaghraby is PhD. faculty member at Journalism Department, Faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo University.

Rodrigo Gómez is professor in communication policies and industries at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa. Currently is the chair of the Political Economy section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) His research is grounded in the critical political economy of communication, examining ownership and public policies in communication industries. He is co-editor (with Ben Birkinbine and Janet Wasko) of the series and book Global Media Giants (2017).

Hyejin Jo is a PhD student in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

Sadia Jamil is a postdoctoral fellow at Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi. She has received her PhD degree in Journalism at the University of Queensland, Australia. She also holds postgraduate degrees in the disciplines of Media Management (University of Stirling, Scotland) and Mass Communication (University of Karachi).

Dal Yong Jin is a distinguished professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

Dr. Alejandro Linares is a post-doctoral researcher at CONICET (National Science and Technology Research Council) in Argentina.

Lucineide Magalhães de Matos is a PhD candidate at Communication Program, Fluminense Federal University.

Bruce Mutsvairo is professor of Journalism in the School of Communication and Journalism at Auburn University, Auburn, USA.

Trust Matsilele is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Informatics and Design at Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, South Africa.

Preeti Raghunath is an Assistant Professor at the Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication (SIMCC), in Pune, India. Her research and praxis are in the realm of critical media policy studies in South Asia. She is particularly interested in pushing the epistemological contours of the area from the Global South. She is the author of 'Community Radio Policies in South Asia: A Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach', published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020.

Dr. Naomi Sakr is Professor of Media Policy at University of Westminster, London, UK and former Director of the CAMRI Arab Media Centre.

María Soledad Segura is a professor at the Social Communication and Social Science Faculty at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.

Shen Hong, received her PhD in Media and Communications from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017. She is a Systems Scientists at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.

Eman M. Soliman is a PhD Lecturer in Cairo University. Her research interests are media reform and public diplomacy.

Klappentext

This book brings together researchers from the field of media and communication policy, media democratization media structures, and media economics to revisit, renew and advance the concept of media governance under the light of fostering cosmopolitan critique.

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Introduction Sarah Anne Ganter and Hanan …