Media economics and management is a young discipline and scholars in the
field were widely dispersed geographically. Due to the new information and
communication technology, increasing globalization as well as the changing
behavior of audience, a specific application of economic and managerial laws
and theories to media industries and firms become crucial. The study focuses on
a synoptic analysis concerning research in media economics and management
pointing out its current state and future areas of research. 843 articles from Journal
of Media Economics, International Journal of Media Management, and Journal of
Media Business Studies from 1988-2016 were analyzed according to background of
the author, industry studied, theoretical base, methods, statistics, etc. In addition,
the study meta-analyzed studies of media concentration to understand the causes
of differences in the global media markets.