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Advancing Media Production Research

Shifting Sites, Methods, and Politics

  • Chris Paterson
  • David Lee
  • Anamik Saha
  • Anna Zoellner
Book

Part of the Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research book series (GTMCR)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Debates and Transitions

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Production Research: Continuity and Transformation
      Chris Paterson, David Lee, Anamik Saha, Anna Zoellner
      Pages 3-19
    3. On the Vagaries of Production Research
      Philip Schlesinger
      Pages 20-37
    4. The Importance of Time in Media Production Research
      David M. Ryfe
      Pages 38-50

  3. Theory and Research

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 50-51
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    2. Field Theory and Media Production: A Bridge-Building Strategy
      Ida Willig
      Pages 53-67
    3. Studying News Production: From Process to Meanings
      Daniel A. Berkowitz, Zhengjia Liu
      Pages 68-78
    4. News Media Ecosystems and Population Dynamics: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
      Wilson Lowrey, Elina Erzikova
      Pages 79-94
    5. Micro vs. Macro: A Reflection on the Potentials of Field Analysis
      Tore Slaatta
      Pages 95-111

  4. Matters of Method

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 113-113
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    2. Applying Grounded Theory in Media Production Studies
      Astrid Gynnild
      Pages 115-130
    3. The Qualitative Interview in Media Production Studies
      Hanne Bruun
      Pages 131-146
    4. When You Can’t Rely on Public or Private: Using the Ethnographic Self as Resource
      Michael B. Munnik
      Pages 147-160
    5. Investigating the Backstage of Newswriting with Process Analysis
      Daniel Perrin
      Pages 161-177

  5. Beyond the Newsroom

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 179-179
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    2. From ‘Poetics’ to ‘Production’: Genres as Active Ingredients in Media Production
      Ana Alacovska
      Pages 181-199
    3. Production Studies and Documentary Participants: A Method
      Willemien Sanders
      Pages 200-216
    4. A Cultural Biography of Application Software
      Frederik Lesage
      Pages 217-232

  6. Epilogue

    1. Epilogue
      C. W. Anderson
      Pages 233-235

About this book

Introduction

This anthology explores challenges to understanding the nature of cultural production, exploring innovative new research approaches and improvements to old approaches, such as newsroom ethnography, which will enable clearer, fuller understanding of the workings of journalism and other forms of media and cultural production.

Keywords

Media Production Cultural Industries Journalism Research Ethnography Communication Research Television Production Media Sociology communication media politics television

Editors and affiliations

  • Chris Paterson
    • 1
  • David Lee
    • 1
  • Anamik Saha
    • 2
  • Anna Zoellner
    • 1
  1. 1.University of LeedsUK
  2. 2.Goldsmiths, University of LondonUK

About the editors

Ana Alacovska, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Dan Berkowitz, University of Iowa, USA Hanne Bruun, Aarhus University, Denmark Elina Erzikova, Central Michigan University, USA Astrid Gynnild, University of Bergen, Norway Fredrick Lesage, Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada Zhengjia Liu, University of Iowa, USA Wilson Lowrey, University of Alabama, USA Michael B. Munnik, University of Edinburgh, UK Daniel Perrin, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland David M. Ryfe, University of Iowa, USA Willemien Sanders, Utrecht University, Netherlands Philip Schlesinger, University of Glasgow, UK Tore Slaatta, University of Oslo, Norway Ida Willig, Roskilde University, Denmark 

Bibliographic information

Reviews

“As the field of media production research widens, the need for comprehensive work to guide us grows. This truly international volume therefore provides an immense service.” (Mark Deuze, Professor of Mediastudies, Director, Research School for Media Studies, University of Amsterdam)

“Reaching back to production researchers’ root concerns with media power, the contributors indeed “advance” conversations about research into the ways media power has diffused to new workplaces, contexts, and workers. The special focus on methods gives readers a buffet of options when considering their own research projects.” (Vicki Mayer, Tulane University, USA)