Understanding Media Control in the Digital Age

Media control comprises multifaceted and amorphous phenomena, combining a variety of forms, tools, practices. Today media takes place in sphere where national politics meet global technology, resulting practices that bear features both the (global) platforms affordances politics. At intersection these fields, we try to understand current ways which it may be resisted. This thematic issue is an endeavour bring together conceptual, methodological, empirical contributions revise scholarly discussion on control. First, authors this re-assemble notion itself, as not being holistic discrete (control vs freedom) but by considering from more critical perspective having various modes regimes. Second, brings “micro” into understanding theorising In comparison structural institutional perspectives control, focuses agency actors (objects subjects pressure) their practices, motivations, resources with they exert or resist Featuring cases broad range countries political systems ranging democracy electoral authoritarian regime, also draws attention question how relates regime type.