This handbook provides comprehensive understanding of comparative communication research. It fills an obvious gap in the literature and offers an extensive discussion of the general approach of comparative research, its prospect and problems as well as its applications in crucial sub-fields of communications.

The first book-long analysis of the 'mediatization of politics', this volume aims to understand the transformations of the relationship between media and politics in recent decades, and explores how growing media autonomy, journalistic framing, media populism and new media technologies affect democratic processes.