The Handbook of Global Media Research

<p>Notes on Contributors viii</p>
<p>Introduction 1</p>
<p>Ingrid Volkmer</p>
<p>Part I History of Transnational Media Research 7</p>
<p>1 Comparative Research and the History of Communication Studies 9<br /> John D.H. Downing</p>
<p>2 Global Media Research and Global Ambitions: The Case of UNESCO 28<br /> Cees J. Hamelink</p>
<p>3 Global Media Research: Can We Know Global Audiences? A View from a BBC Perspective 40<br /> Graham Mytton</p>
<p>Part II Re–conceptualizing Research across Globalized Network Cultures 55</p>
<p>4 Media and Hegemonic Populism: Representing the Rise of the Rest 57<br /> Jan Nederveen Pieterse</p>
<p>5 Digitization and Knowledge Systems of the Powerful and the Powerless 74<br /> Saskia Sassen</p>
<p>6 Media Cultures in a Global Age: A Transcultural Approach to an Expanded Spectrum 92<br /> Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp</p>
<p>7 Deconstructing the Methodological Paradox : Comparative Research between National Centrality and Networked Spaces 110<br /> Ingrid Volkmer</p>
<p>8 Footprints of the Global South: Venesat–1 and RascomQAF/1R as Counter–hegemonic Satellites 123<br /> Lisa Parks</p>
<p>9 Securitization and Legitimacy in Global Media Governance: Spaces, Jurisdictions, and Tensions 143<br /> Katharine Sarikakis</p>
<p>10 Emerging Transnational News Spheres in Global Crisis Reporting: A Research Agenda 156<br /> Maria Hellman and Kristina Riegert</p>
<p>11 The Global Public Sphere : A Critical Reappraisal 175<br /> Kai Hafez</p>
<p>Part III Supra– and Sub–national Spheres: Researching Transnational Spaces 193</p>
<p>12 Middle East Media Research: Problems and Approaches 195<br /> Dina Matar and Ehab Bessaiso</p>
<p>13 Media Industries and Policy in Digital Times: A Latin American Perspective of Notes and Methods 212<br /> Rodrigo G&oacute;mez Garc&iacute;a</p>
<p>14 Methodological Pluralism: Interrogating Ethnic Identity and Diaspora Issues in Southeast Asia 227<br /> Umi Khattab</p>
<p>15 Citizen Access to Information : Capturing the Evidence across Zambia, Ghana, and Kenya 245<br /> Gerry Power, Samia Khatun, and Klara Debeljak</p>
<p>16 India and a New Cartography of Global Communication 276<br /> Daya Kishan Thussu</p>
<p>17 What Is Governance? Citizens Perspectives on Governance in Sierra Leone and Tanzania 289<br /> Vipul Khosla and Kavita Abraham Dowsing</p>
<p>18 Forced Migrants, New Media Practices, and the Creation of Locality 312<br /> Saskia Witteborn</p>
<p>Part IV Identifying Spheres of Comparison in Globalized Contexts 331</p>
<p>19 Researching the News Agencies 333<br /> Oliver Boyd–Barrett</p>
<p>20 Global Internets: Media Research in the New World 352<br /> Gerard Goggin</p>
<p>21 Media, Diaspora, and the Transnational Context: Cosmopolitanizing Cross–National Comparative Research? 365<br /> Myria Georgiou</p>
<p>22 Post–colonial Interventions on Media, Audiences, and National Politics 381<br /> Ramaswami Harindranath</p>
<p>23 Media Research and Satellite Cultures: Comparative Research among Arab Communities in Europe 397<br /> Christina Slade and Ingrid Volkmer</p>
<p>24 Stardust in the Audience s Eyes: Weddings as Media Events in Visual Media and the Construction of Gender 411<br /> Eva Flicker</p>
<p>Part V Comparative Research and Contexts of Challenges 433</p>
<p>25 Lost, Found, and Made: Qualitative Data in the Study of Three–Step Flows of Communication 435<br /> Klaus Bruhn Jensen</p>
<p>26 Finding Yourself in the Past, the Present, the Local, and the Global: Potentialities of Mediated Cosmopolitanism as a Research Methodology 451<br /> Ruth Teer–Tomaselli and Lauren Dyll–Myklebust</p>
<p>27 Europe: A Laboratory for Comparative Communication Research 470<br /> Claes H. de Vreese and Rens Vliegenthart</p>
<p>28 The Global Local in News Production Tales from the Field in the Shoes of Journalists 485<br /> Lisbeth Clausen</p>
<p>29 Africa Talks Climate : Comparing Audience Understandings of Climate Change in Ten African Countries 504<br /> Anna Godfrey, Miriam Burton, and Emily LeRoux–Rutledge</p>
<p>30 Organizing and Managing Comparative Research Projects across Nations: Models and Challenges of Coordinated Collaboration 521<br /> Frank Esser and Thomas Hanitzsch</p>
<p>31 Benefits and Pitfalls of Comparative Research on News: Production, Content, and Audiences 533<br /> Akiba A. Cohen</p>
<p>Index 547</p>