The Marketplace of ideas: Less owners, less ideas? An interdisciplinary study on the impact of media ownership concentration on media content, outlet and production diversity using a longitudinal and cross-national perspective.

Combining insights from communication studies, political science and economics, the project aims to understand the characteristics of the current media concentration (and resulting media conglomerates) and its impact on content diversity in historical and cross-country comparative perspective to answer the question if concentration of media ownership limits the plurality of issues, actors, viewpoints and discourses in the media, undermining their democratic role.

Keywords:NEWS CONTENT, PLURALISM, MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY, MEDIA CONCENTRATION, NEWS PRODUCTION

Disciplines:Applied economics, Economic history, Macroeconomics and monetary economics, Microeconomics, Tourism, Communication sciences, Journalism and professional writing, Media studies, Other media and communications