Dass vielfältige Inhalte und Meinungen über eine Vielzahl an Medien verbreitet werden, ist für unsere demokratische Gesellschaft heute wichtiger denn je. Gerade deshalb ist es unabdingbar, Meinungsmacht einzelner Medienunternehmen zu verhindern und dadurch zur Meinungsvielfalt beizutragen....

Advertising Decline as a Media-Economic Factor: From Two-Sided Markets to Datafication in Journalism -- Book/Book Groups -- Changing Use of Audiovisual Media -- Classical Political Economy -- Commercial Audience Market Research -- Controlling in media companies -- Corporate Social Responsibility...

Technological innovations in content delivery, such as the advent of broadcast television or of the Internet, threaten local newspapers’ ability to bundle their original local content with third-party content such as wire national news. We examine how the entry of television – with its...

News media operate in two-sided markets, offering bundles of content to readers as well as selling readers' attention to advertisers. Technological innovations in content delivery, such as the advent of broadcast television or of the Internet, affect both sides of the market, threatening the...

News media operate in two-sided markets, offering bundles of content to readers as well as selling readers' attention to advertisers. Technological innovations in content delivery, such as the advent of broadcast television or of the Internet, affect both sides of the market, threatening the...

The media industry is unique in its ability to spread information that may influence the democraticprocess. This influence depends on where and how citizens get their political information. While previous research has examined news production and consumption on specific media platforms—such as...

This paper defines the power of a media organization as its ability to induce voters to make electoral decisions they would not make if reporting were unbiased. It derives a robust upper bound to media power over a range of assumptions about the beliefs and attention patterns of voters. The...

We explore the implications of ownership concentration for the recently-concluded incentive auction that re-purposed spectrum from broadcast TV to mobile broadband usage in the U.S. We document significant multi-license ownership of TV stations. We show that in the reverse auction, in which TV...

We explore the sensitivity of the U.S. government's ongoing incentive auction to multi-license ownership by broadcasters. We document significant broadcast TV license purchases by private equity firms prior to the auction and perform a prospective analysis of the effect of ownership...

News from Germany traces why Germans became interested in international communications around 1900 and how they sought to control it for the next 45 years. They used new communications technologies, like wireless and radio, and they used the central businesses of news supply - news agencies. An...

The study tries to respond to a question of great current policy interest: have American media become more concentrated due to various M&As and shake-outs, or have then become less concentrated due to Internet and other new types of media entry? The study analyzes 100 different media and...

Wer sind die Eliten und die Mächtigen in unseren Gegenwartsgesellschaften? Und wie beeinflussen sie Politik und demokratische Entscheidungsprozesse? Neben einem Überblick über den Stand der Eliten- und Machtstrukturforschung behandeln die Autorinnen und Autoren den Einfluss von...

This chapter studies situations where media sources deliberately deviate from truthful reporting in order to manipulate electoral outcomes. Media capture occurs when the government actively attempts to influence the media industry. We instead speak of media power when news organizations engage...

Schon jeder hat wohl schon einmal im Stillen gedacht, ob das denn richtig ist, was da im Fernsehen berichtet wird, insbesondere bei ARD und ZDF. Ist wirklich alles so schlecht? Warum wird über 50 Occupy-Demonstranten vor der EZB berichtet, nicht aber über die gegen Abtreibung mit 10.000...