In this study, we conduct a direct replication of Lorenz-Spreen et al. (2023)'s systematic review on digital media and democracy to verify and enhance the robustness of their findings. We successfully reproduce the main claims of the original paper, uncovering a few minor coding errors that do...

Die Digitalisierung führt zu einer anhaltenden Transformation des Medienökosystems. Die globale Macht von Plattformmonopolen und die zunehmende Bedeutung von künstlicher Intelligenz sind nur zwei Beispiele für die Notwendigkeit eines Updates der Medienökonomik. Wichtige Ziele sind der...

Aus dem einleitenden Teil: "Lebenslanges Lernen wird durch die sich ständig ändernden Entwicklungen und Anforderungen in der Arbeits- und Lebenswelt der Menschen immer wichtiger. Veränderungen hat es schon immer gegeben, aber durch die Digitalisierung kann von einem immer schnelleren Wandel...

Alongside the recent regulations addressing platforms and digital markets - the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) - the European Union's (EU) European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) aims to safeguard media freedom and pluralism, two essential pillars of democracy. The EMFA...

In 2023 in Ukraine the legal regime of martial law continued to be enacted, accordingly a partial restriction of the right to freedom of expression was preserved. The Law of Ukraine "On Media" entered into force in March 2023. In particular, it implemented the EU Audiovisual Media Services...

This report presents the results and the methodology of the Media Pluralism Monitor 2024, based on its implementation in 32 countries (27 EU Member States and five candidate countries) for the year 2023. The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) is a tool that is geared to assessing the risks to media...

Digital media, and in particular social media, have a strong influence on individual and societal development. With their expansive reach, they shape our relationships and, by extension, our personalities, collective behaviours, and culture. To address this, the Commission initiated a study on...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming much of society in a short time. Regardless of whether we know it, we interact with AI systems when we seek information online, shop, work, and engage with social media. AI has massive potential to promote human wellbeing but also poses considerable...

In this paper, we provide a theoretical framework for three models of Digital Media Firm behavior called Premium, Free-to-Play, and Play-to-Earn. First, we study a baseline model of optimal price and quality of a digital product, the premium model. Second, we extend the baseline model where some...

This paper explores the main features of digital repression in Russia, especially in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The repression of digital activism is not a new phenomenon in Russia; however, it gained fresh momentum during the Russian-Ukrainian war. Security has been used as...

Objective: The study aimed to map the stock of knowledge on organizational identity in a digital environment. Research Design & Methods: We systematically reviewed the literature to map the current research landscape and identify gaps that need to be addressed to better understand how...

"Wir sind umgeben von einer Vielzahl an Informationsströmen, die uns selbstverständlich erscheinen. Um diese digitalen Kulturen zu beschreiben, entwickeln medienwissenschaftliche Arbeiten Theorien einer Welt im Fluss. Dabei erliegen ihre Diagnosen oftmals einem Technikfetisch und...

How marketers learned to dream of optimization and speak in the idiom of management science well before the widespread use of the Internet. Algorithms, data extraction, digital marketers monetizing "eyeballs": these all seem like such recent features of our lives. And yet, Lee McGuigan tells us...

The COVID-19 pandemic is changing consumer behaviour, where consumers are shifting their activities toward digital activities. One of the popular advertising media among digital natives during the COVID-19 pandemic is digital influencers. Brands and marketers should use digital advertising and...

Introducing the fundamentals of digital communication with a robust bottom-up approach, this textbook is designed to equip senior undergraduate and graduate students in communications engineering with the core skills they need to assess, compare, and design state-of-the-art digital communication...

The De Gruyter Handbook of Media Technology and Innovation brings together scholars from around the world to provide key insights on emerging technology trends and issues relatedto the fields of media management, information technology, product design planning and digital lifestyle. This...

"This cutting-edge text brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners to examine how digital has become the default space for advertising - in practice, communication, and commercial process. Providing a wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary account of a complex contemporary moment...

"Written for the non-specialist media producer, this book offers a practical and engaging guide to basic digital media production using modern equipment and software. As media production tools and software become more pervasive and traditional media jobs scarcer, today's media professionals are...

"With our modern world relying more and more on Internet-based technologies, this timely book takes a renewed look at the ever-increasing digital divide between developing and more technologically advanced countries and the resulting impacts on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....

This article presents a theoretical model of the strategic interaction between a newspaper and a digital platform. For a broad range of consumer preferences, entry by the digital platform causes the newspaper to reduce its readership, quality and advertising, and also to lose advertising...

With the advancement of technology and advent of the new digital era, the society is getting increasingly exposed to novel technologies, digital platforms, or smart devices. This reality opens a wide range of questions about the benefits and challenges of technology and its impact on humans. In...

This paper analyses whether the audience dynamics of one content provider can explain the audience dynamics of a different content provider, and the resulting network of connections among providers. The type of connections in this network determines whether the audience of one creator influences...

South Asia has seen a digital revolution in recent years. The number of persons who use the internet has risen drastically. They use it for shopping, social media and online sales. However, there exists a literature gap as far as the effect of outbound digital marketing in B2B markets is...

Das vorliegende Dokument umfasst den finalen Bericht zum Forschungsprojekt „Die Umsetzung des DigitalPakts Schule: Wirkungsweisen und mögliche Problemlagen“. Die Studie wurde als ein unabhängiges Forschungsprojekt zwischen August 2020 und März 2022 am Institut für Sozial- und...

Das klassische Konzert ist im Wandel - es findet an unkonventionellen Orten statt, die Distanz zwischen Bühne und Auditorium wird aufgehoben und andere Publikumsgruppen werden involviert. Alle Rollen stehen neu zur Diskussion: Wer spielt, wer hört zu, wer organisiert, wer partizipiert?...