abstract: Media control comprises multifaceted and amorphous phenomena, combining a variety of forms, tools, and practices.Today media control takes place in a sphere where national politics meet global technology, resulting in practices that bear features of both the (global) platforms and the affordances of national politics.At the intersection of these fields, we try to understand current practices of media control and the ways in which it may be resisted.This thematic issue is an endeavour to bring to
journal: Media and Communication