Bücher der Reihe Donald McGannon Communication Research Center's Everett C. Parker Book Series

Buying Reality compares the political ads, money and political stories on local television news in the 2016 Presidential and Down Ballot campaigns.

A synergy between academia and activism has long been a goal of both scholars and advocacy organizations in communications research. In this book, the essays demonstrates how an effective partnership between the two can contribute to a democratic public sphere by helping to break down the digital divide to allow access to critical technologies.

Provides an international perspective on theoretical approaches to data-based communications policymaking in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa

The book examines different ways in which the concepts of media pluralism and diversity have been theorized and used in media policy debates. Its basic argument is that media pluralism should be understood as a broad normative value that refers to the distribution of communicative power in the public sphere.