Literature and commentary

Online resources


Selected case-law

European Court of Human Rights

Selected works available through (online) institutional access

  • Eric Barendt, Broadcasting Law: A Comparative Study (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993).
  • Manuel Castells, Communication Power (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009).
  • Peter Coe, Media Freedom in the Age of Citizen Journalism (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021).
  • Leen d’Haenens, Helena Sousa & Josef Trappel, Eds., Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe: Unpacking the Policy Cycle (Intellect Books, Bristol and Chicago, 2018).
  • Judith Lichtenberg, Ed., Democracy and the mass media (Cambridge & New York, Cambridge University Press, 1990). Available via Cambridge Core.
  • Daithí Mac Síthigh, Medium Law (Routledge, 2018).
  • Denis McQuail and Mark Deuze, McQuail’s Mass Communication Theory (7th Edition) (London and Thousand Oaks, California, SAGE Publications Ltd., 2020).
  • Denis McQuail, Media Accountability and Freedom of Publication (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003).
  • Martin Moore and Damian Tambini (Eds.), Regulating Big Tech: Policy Responses to Digital Dominance (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021) [Oxford Scholarship Online]. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197616093.001.0001
  • Philip Napoli, Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age (New York, Columbia University Press, 2019).
  • Jan Oster, European and International Media Law (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 1-20.
  • Pier Luigi Parcu and Elda Brogi (Eds.), Research Handbook on EU Media Law and Policy (Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021).
  • Jacob Rowbottom, Media Law (2nd edition) (Hart Publishing, 2024).
  • Eugenia Siapera, Understanding New Media (2nd Edition) (London, etc., SAGE Publications Ltd., 2018).
  • Roger Silverstone, Why Study the Media? (London/Thousand Oaks, CA/New Delhi, SAGE Publications, 1999).
  • Ithiel de Sola Pool, Technologies of Freedom (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1983).