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Notes
[1] See the newspaper circulation figures filed with the Alliance for Audited Media for 31 March 2013. At: http://www.auditedmedia.com/news/blog/top-25-us-newspapers-for-march-2013.aspx, last accessed 28 November 2014.
[2] See BBC press release, ‘Record audience figures as quarter of a billion people tune in to BBC's global news services', from 25 June 2013. At: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/global-audience-estimate, last accessed 28 November 2014.
[3] See Murdock (Citation2013, 44) on the relationship between information, representation and participation in studies of media and democracy.
[4] For social movements scholars, the work of David Snow and his collaborators is foundational, notably their call for attention to ‘the struggle over the production of mobilising’ and ‘counter-mobilising ideas’ (Benford and Snow Citation2000, 613).
[5] See also JEMS volume 31, issue 3 (2005), a special issue on minority media in multicultural Europe.