Publications

New Publication: “Young adults’ perceptions of entertainment consumption in their everyday lives during the COVID-19 pandemic: Negotiating versatility, emotions, and agency in times of limited choice”

This article has been recently accepted and was published by Media, Culture & Society. Thanks to the editors and the reviewers who evaluated the manuscript. Thanks also to Jennifer Yakamovich for her excellent help with coding the material, to Catherine Jeffery and Ben Scholl for facilitating the data collection—as well as to the participants of […]

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Chapter in the Handbook of Media and Communication Governance

Together with Maria Löblich (FU Berlin), we wrote a chapter for the theorizing governance section in the Handbook of Media and Communication Governance. The handbook was edited by Manuel Puppis, Robin Mansell and Hilde Van den Bulck and brings together some of the centre lines of media and communication governance studies. The goal of our

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CFP Special Issue: Unfolding Disentanglements from Platform Power in Journalism

Please consider submitting to our CFP for a special issue on unfolding disentanglements from platform power in journalism for Digital Journalism. Guest edited by myself, Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk and Annika Sehl. Abstract submission Deadline: February 5, 2024 (500-750 words). Read the full call here.

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Video: IAMCR 2023 Global Media Policy Panel Contribution

Claudia Padovani and the Global Media Policy Working Group organized a panel at the IAMCR 2023 in Lyon where editors of the IAMCR/Palgrave Macmillan Book series were invited to speak about the future of the field. I could not be there in person, but was asked to send a video contribution. I am adding the

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First Review of Media Governance: A Cosmopolitan Critique in the Journal of Digital Media & Policy

Benjamin J. Birkinbine (University of Nevada, Reno) reviewed our edited volume Media Governance: A Cosmopolitan Critique for the Journal of Digital Media & Policy. Honored that our book got selected to be reviewed by a colleague! Read the review here.

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New book available online! Media Governance: A Cosmopolitan Critique

“Media Governance: A Cosmopolitan Critique” is a new volume edited by Sarah Anne Ganter and Hanan Badr, published in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series. 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

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Journal Article”Governance of news aggregators’ practices” published in the Information Society

During the 2005–2015 decade, news publishers, governments, and digital news aggregators re-negotiated the parameters of control over the circulation of digital content. Using governance and regime theory, we analyze five emblematic cases—Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom—of early governance reactions to news aggregators’ practices and identify different types of strategies: (1) discursive resistance;

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