This edited volume considers why the African language press is unstable and what can be done to develop quality African language journalism into a sustainable business.

This book outlines how African language media is affected by politics, technology, culture, and the economy and how this media is creatively produced and appropriated by audiences across cultures and contexts.

This book investigates the ways in which soft power is used by African countries to help drive global influence. This book will be of interest to researchers from across political science, international relations, cultural studies, foreign policy and African Studies.

In Afro-Brazilians in Mass Media: Social, Political, and Economic Realities, Samantha Nogueira Joyce examines representations of Blackness on Brazilian TV, interrogating the role of mass media in developing racial equality and social change.

Inspired by Roland Barthes's practice of "semioclasm" in Mythologies, this book offers a "technoclasm"; a cultural critique of US narratives, discourses, images, and objects that have transformed the politics of automation into statements of fact about the "rise of the robots".

A valuable resource for journalism and policy scholars and students, Governing the Algorithmic Distribution of News is an important guide for anyone hoping to understand the central regulatory issues surrounding the online distribution of news.

This book provides a critical study of the power, trust and legitimacy of algorithmic gatekeepers.

This book examines the political-economic dynamics in the development of a leading global Internet giant: Alibaba.

This book examines the political-economic dynamics in the development of a leading global Internet giant: Alibaba.

Whether a story appears in print, on television, or on the Internet depends on who is interested, its value to advertisers, the costs of assembling the details, and competitors' products. This book develops an economic theory of news, analyzes evidence across a range of media markets on how incentives affect news content, and offers conclusions.