The aim of the Daniel Jones Research Group in Communication Structure and Policies is to contribute to the academic analysis, both critical and comparative, of media systems in the Western European area, with emphasis on the countries of Mediterranean Europe and particularly the Spanish and Catalan media systems. To that end, we study the strategies and behaviours of the economic, political and social actors that coexist within these systems, as well as the interrelations that are forged among them. The group is essentially made up of former researchers from the Communication Policies Observatory at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)’s Institute of Communication, and is currently affiliated to the Department of Media, Communication and Culture at the same university.