1st Edition

Media-State Relations and Social Media Reimagining the Four Theories of the Press through Neo-Gramscianism

By Tyler W. Wilson Copyright 2025
212 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book updates scholarship related to media-state relations for the social media age. It presents a timely account of how states have engaged with the platforms that have spread around the world – and the challenges that this presents. Further, it is positioned at a novel intersection between the Communications and International Relations disciplines, so scholars and students of both fields... Read more

Part I Establishing the Social Media-State Relationship 1. Introduction 2. Framing Media-State Relations Scholarship 3. Distinguishing Social Media From Historical Media Technologies Part II |Theorising the Contemporary Social Media-State Relationship 4. Social Media as an Order Facilitator 5. The Strongman Order 6. The Big Brother Order 7. The Free Market Order 8. The Social Consciousness Order 9. Measuring The Social Media-State Relationship – The Order Index

Biography

Tyler W. Wilson is an early career academic within Bond University’s Faculty of Society and Design. He teaches within the Communication and International Relations disciplines. His research interests focus on understanding the intersection of social media, society, and the global system.