Journalists’ Autonomy around the Globe: A Typology of 46 Mass Media Systems

Autor/innen

  • Michael Meyen Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.35003

Schlagworte:

mass media systems, comparative research, documentary analysis, expert interviews, typology

Abstract

Using structuration theory, assuming that every government has a stake in steering pub-lic communication and comparing 46 nation-states, this paper explores the major principles that can be used to explain different mass media structures around the globe. The study draws on exten-sive documentary analysis and includes more than 150 expert interviews. It shows that media free-dom and journalists’ autonomy depend on not only the particular governmental system, the consti-tution, journalism education, and the existence of commercial media but also, to a significant ex-tent, on economic realities, the tradition of press freedom, and various other factors that are histor-ical, religious, and/or geographic. The tool to do so is a mass media system typology based on two dimensions: formal expectations and the state’s influence.

Autor/innen-Biografie

Michael Meyen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Michael Meyen is professor of communication at the University of Munich. His research interests include mass media freedom, mass media systems, media discourses, journalism, media logic and medialization, the history of media, journalism and communication (with a certain focus on the GDR) and the history of communication research.

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2018-07-17

Zitationsvorschlag

Meyen, M. (2018). Journalists’ Autonomy around the Globe: A Typology of 46 Mass Media Systems. Global Media Journal - German Edition, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.35003

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