it useful to (re)think the media-political power relationship in terms of systems or models? Is it possible to define a world neatly organized into static categories? How many models are needed to characterize the differences? This book provides conceptual and analytical tools to respond provocatively to these questions. The gaze of researchers in the new generations of communication scholars allows us to go beyond the merely normative approach, to elaborate new empirical proposals. It also warns about the dangers of replicating or creating new models without questioning the fluidity, dynamism and interconnectedness of the current media environment.