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Welcome to the collaborative wiki site of the International Media Concentration project, hosted by the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information with the participation of other institutions and scholars.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Project Team and Approach
Scope and Methodology
Schedule

Introduction

Media concentration is a controversial subject. One side focuses on media empires and their negative impacts. The other side believes the Internet as having opened media to unprecedented diversity. The goal of our project is to go beyond the rhetoric to an academic, empirical, dispassionate, and data-driven analysis of trends and their drivers. We have no agenda beyond understanding what is happening and why, and no preconceived notion as to the results. In order to spur international collaboration, this Wiki has been set up. Project team members are highly encouraged to use it as a platform to display their recent findings and to keep track of the projects overall progress.

Recent news and announcements about the project can be found here.

Project Team and Approach

We seek to bring together scholars from about thirty countries. (See a list of our team members). We will follow a basic common methodology for each country and a parallel work schedule. In the process we aim to create an international community of scholars. The international dimension is essential, since in every country there are special circumstances that may obscure the broader trends. The organizational structure of the project will be led by a scientific committee composed of three regional leaders.

Scope and Methodology

We use a quantitative approach based on market share data for major media industries, for a period of about 20 years. A more detailed description of our methodological framework can be seen in the Methodology section. In addition to that, a guide to find relevant industry data has been set up.

Schedule

The time schedule would be a first draft by mid 2009. At that point of time, we expect most of the industry data aggregation to be completed. The first draft of individual country chapters will be submitted by August 2009. In late 2009, a first conference will be set up. After finalizing the individual chapters in early 2010, the final manuscript will be prepared by the end of 2010.