Handbook of Media and Communication Governance
Journal: Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
Year: 2024

The chapter offers a framework for the analysis of media regulation in non-democratic systems. It considers media and Internet regulation as a form of autocratic adaptability in the context of continuous technological innovation. Regulation seeks to protect the legitimacy of autocratic leaders and their regimes in a rapidly changing environment. Accordingly, the regulation should be seen in the context of the trajectory of the development of media systems either from closed to open or from open