De Gruyter Handbook of Media Economics

Introduction

1 De Gruyter handbook of media economics: Introduction

Ulrike Rohn

M. Bjorn von Rimscha

Tim Raats

Acknowledgments: The editors would like to thank all authors for their relevant contributions and our publisher De Gruyter for the guidance and support throughout this process. We also thank our reviewers and the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz for assisting in proofreading and copy-editing. Ulrike Rohn also acknowledges the support through the European Union Horizon 2020 funding scheme (ScreenME-Net, grant number 952156) and the Estonian Research Council (Public Value of Open Cultural Data, grant number PRG1641).

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