Andrew Ó Baoill is a Lecturer at the School of English, Media and Creative Arts at University of Galway, Ireland. His work focuses on the political economy of the mass media, with a particular interest in the interplay of technological change, regulation and not-for-profit media. He has also published on critical pedagogies for media studies, including on open scholarship. A former station manager in the community radio sector in both Ireland and the United States, he currently produces a monthly radio show, A Critical Ear.