... to be synonymous with democracy. This in turn means that the role of capitalism is taken for granted. To this extent the author asks: “why bother studying the political economy of communication if nothing can be changed?” (hereby pointing at the direction of general media research). This is an important...

... is a particularly fruitful approach, since it provides the conceptual and methodological equipment to account for democracy in terms of processes of issue formation. Such an account of democracy, it is argued, is particularly appropriate to the study of ICT‐based democratic processes, since in the context of ICT...