Jonathan Hardy is Professor of Communications and Media at the University of the Arts London. He writes and comments on media industries, media and advertising, communications regulation, and international media systems. His books include Critical Political Economy of the Media (2014), Cross-Media Promotion (2010), and Western Media Systems (2008). He is co-editor of The Advertising Handbook (2018) and is series editor of Routledge Critical Advertising Studies. He is a member of the editorial boards of Digital Journalism, Political Economy of Communication, Mediterranean Journal of Communication, and TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique.

Part One: Practices 1 Advertising and media: separation and integration 2. News Media and Marketing 3. Branded entertainment and product integration 4. Brand content direct to you: marketers' 'owned' media 5. Going native in digital media 6. Media as Marketers Part Two: Policies and Problems 7. Regulating convergent media and marketing communications 8. Lobbying, liberalisation, normalisation, and contestation 9. Communication gains and losses: economic, cultural, and societal 10. Media and marketing critiques: renewing the radical tradition 11. Advertising and Media (reprise): contesting normalisation