THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF METHODS FOR MEDIA POLICY RESEARCH, HILDE VAN DEN BULCK, MANUEL PUPPIS, KAREN DONDERS AND LEO VAN AUDENHOVE (EDS) (2019)

摘要

This elegant and impressive compilation of essays on media policy research, edited by three Belgian scholars and one Swiss, arrives at a timely moment. Recent years have witnessed a rapid transformation of media policy, research methodologies and even the very notion of media itself. These changes are the result of several converging forces - massive datafication across sectors, an embrace of open data and open science, and the ascendance of social media and other digital platforms - that are forcing us to rethink how information (and disinformation) is mediated, propagated and consumed. In addition, policy and governance - and research into these fields - are also changing, for instance, with a greater reliance on the behavioural sciences and a recognition of the potential offered by various forms of direct democracy, often digitally enabled.