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Cross-border dynamic in comparative studies of media systems: Towards a new model
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences. (Media and Communication)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3607-7881
Journalism Department at City, University of London, London, UK.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6609-9395
Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden.
Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0301-9765
2023 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

In globalized and digitalized economies, how could we compare the role of media in politics in different countries? The growth of transnational social media platforms; the new borderless patterns of media distribution and consumption, and the consequential need for transnational and harmonized digital media policies have caused challenges for scholars in the field of comparative studies (Siebert & Schram 1956; Hallin & Mancini 2004). A problem is that traditional conceptualizations of media systems still dominate (cf. Humprecht et al. 2022; Marques & Vos 2023). Therefore, the purpose is to theorize emerging media systems constituted by combinations of domestic/cross-border institutionalized/de-institutionalized relations. Through a literature review and results from the EU-funded project Mediadelcom, we argue as follows:

(1) The power of de-institutionalizing digital communication (Mancini 2020), and its challenging of legacy media organizations, requires that the polarized pluralist/corporatist/liberal classifications of Hallin & Mancini (2004) become more changeable and dynamically combined dimensions within and across nation-states, and updated with theory about global politics and communication (Hellmueller & Berglez 2022). For example, this enables understandings of the, often transnationally interconnected, expansion of polarized politics across countries’ digital public spheres.

(2) Nation-states should be grouped along categories of domestic-cross-border conditions and relations (prel. the multipolar media system, global pluralist media system, and de-globalizing media system). Here, different types and levels of institutionalized/de-institutionalized movement across borders thus becomes an important unit of comparison. 

(3) Thereby we propose a framework for comparative studies of cross-border dynamic (CBD) media systems; their role within political systems, and vice versa.

References

Hallin, D., Mancini, P. (2004) Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Hellmueller, L., Berglez, P. (2022) “Future Conceptual Challenges of Cross-Border Journalism”, Journalism, 1-22. 

Humprecht, E. et al. (2022) “Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries”, Journal of Communication 72: 145-164. 

Mancini, P. (2020) “Comparing Media Systems and the Digital Age”, International Journal of Communication 14: 5761-5774.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2023.
Keywords [en]
media systems, cross-border, Hallin, Mancini, digitalization, globalizatiion
National Category
Media and Communication Studies
Research subject
Media and Communication Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-110052OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-110052DiVA, id: diva2:1817066
Conference
ANZCA Conference, Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, November 21-24, 2023
Projects
Mediadelcom
Funder
EU, Horizon 2020, 101004811Available from: 2023-12-05 Created: 2023-12-05 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved

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