Political Economy of Media and Communication
Political Economy of Media and Communication

Author: Joan Pedro-Carañana

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-02-01

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1003847730

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The first book dedicated specifically to research methods in the political economy of media and communication, it provides a methodological toolkit to investigate the functioning of media, technology, and cultural industries in their historical, institutional, structural, and systemic contexts. Featuring contributions from across the globe and a variety of methodological perspectives, this volume presents the state of the art in political economy of media and communication methods, articulating those methods with adjacent approaches, to study concentration of ownership and power, pluralism and diversity, regulation and public policies, governance, genderization, and sustainability. This collection charts the methodological innovations critical political economists are adopting to analyse a rapidly transforming digital media landscape, exploring ideology, narratives, socio-analysis and praxis in communication with ethnographic and participatory approaches, as well as designs for quantitative and qualitative methods of textual, discourse and content analysis, network analyses, which consider power relations affecting communication, including intersectional oppressions and the new developments taking place in artificial intelligence. An essential text for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers in the areas of media, cultural and communication studies, particularly those studying topics such as the political economy of media and/or communication, media and communication theory, and research methods.

La Comunicación y Sus Guerras Teóricas. Introducción a Las Teorías de la Comunicación y Los Medios
La Comunicación y Sus Guerras Teóricas. Introducción a Las Teorías de la Comunicación y Los Medios

Author: Maira Vaca

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781433175916

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Pensar el estudio de la comunicación como una "guerra" implica reconocer que este no es un campo de estudio delimitado por una sola disciplina o una estricta definición del concepto "comunicación". Exige, también, identificar diversas tradiciones de investigación, así como explorar los principales dilemas que han guiado varias disciplinas en distintas épocas históricas y latitudes del mundo. Esta colección de tres volúmenes propone, entonces, analizar la comunicación y los medios desde muy diversas trincheras. Estos diversos panoramas, enfoques, tradiciones, épocas, escuelas, autores y sus preocupaciones dialogan entre sí. No hay consensos definitivos; pero tampoco perdedores o ganadores en el debate. La "guerra" consiste pues, en identificar lo que está en juego; reconocer la diversidad de opiniones e intereses, y; considerar el vasto arsenal disponible para resolver los grandes dilemas de la comunicación. Volumen I. Enfoques disciplinarios Este primer volumen de La comunicación y sus guerras teóricas. Introducción a las teorías de la comunicación y los medios revisa los principales enfoques disciplinarios: sus supuestos, alcances y límites, así como las propuestas generales de los diversos cristales desde los que se mira este complejo campo de estudio. "Y es que en el mundo traidor", dicta el verso, "no hay ni verdad ni mentira: todo es según el color del cristal con que se mira". Este volumen presenta algunas (im)precisiones necesarias, al tiempo que propone un mapa tentativo para navegar en esta muy variada área de estudio. El recorrido comienza por el enfoque tradicional de la sociología invitándonos a cuestionar el determinismo tecnológico que constantemente amenaza el estudio de la comunicación y los medios. Otros "cristales" como el enfoque normativo, el cultural, el afectivo, el biológico, el económico, el digital o el político complementan esta revisión crítica a través de las plumas de los grandes expertos de cada mirada.

Distinctive Qualities in Communication Research
Distinctive Qualities in Communication Research

Author: Donal Carbaugh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1135221006

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This timely volume provides an in-depth look at why the field of communication is so central in initiatives for social impact around the world. In Distinctive Qualities in Communication Research, editors Donal Carbaugh and Patrice M. Buzzanell bring together scholars with varied and productive approaches to communication to address the question of what distinguishes communication research from similar studies in other disciplines. Each contributor responds to the question: "What makes your research communication research? How does your program of inquiry treat communication not simply as data, but as its primary theoretical concern?" Their responses are the heart of this book. The questions addressed and answered herein define the qualities that set research in communication apart from work in related fields, such as social psychology, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. The book begins and ends by looking across these studies generally, bringing into view not only the specific possibilities in the study of communication today, but also what such study contributes generally to understanding human problems, social relations, and communities. This volume provides an invaluable resource for graduate students beginning their study in communication; academics needing to define the distinctive contributions that communication research makes; and administrators who want to understand the scope and breadth of work in communication. It provides an invaluable resource for defining the role of communication research in the academic community and the contributions it makes to the study of human interaction.

Introducción a la teoría de la comunicación de masas
Introducción a la teoría de la comunicación de masas

Author: Denis McQuail

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788449308123

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El presente libro, convertido en un clasico casi desde el momento de su aparicion, constituye una amplia introduccion a los medios de comunicacion de masas. El texto aborda los principales elementos constitutivos de la comunicacion de masas el emisor, el mensaje y las audiencias, asi como las diversas formas que adopta en las sociedades contemporaneas television, radio, prensa, cine y musica, sin olvidar las nuevas tecnologias de difusion electronica por cable y por sateilite, y, de este modo, a lo largo de la obra, demuestra la importancia de las teorias de la comunicacion de masas para la comprension de la sociedad y la cultura en general. Esta tercera edicion, revisada y ampliada teniendo en cuenta las investigaciones y los trabajos criticos mas recientes, no solo mejora la calidad del texto, sino tambien su presentacion. Y ademas insiste especialmente en las facetas mas actuales del tema: las relaciones entre los sexos, la globalizacion de la comunicacion, la investigacion de las audiencias y de la recepcion, las estructuras e instituciones mediaticas y la evaluacion de sus resultados.

The Social Movements Reader
The Social Movements Reader

Author: Jeff Goodwin

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2003-02-12

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780631221968

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The Social Movements Reader is an extensive collection of the key classic and contemporary readings on the origins, organization, dynamics, and effects of social movements. Contains 33 concise essays by leading scholars on the origins, organizations, influences, and development of social movements. Collects both classic and contemporary readings on social movements. Provides several case studies including articles on labor, civil rights, women, the environment, religion, and politics. Includes editorial introductions, chronologies, and definitions of key terms to give further insight and direction.

Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World
Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World

Author: Daniel C. Hallin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-11-28

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1139505165

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Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World offers a broad exploration of the conceptual foundations for comparative analysis of media and politics globally. It takes as its point of departure the widely used framework of Hallin and Mancini's Comparing Media Systems, exploring how the concepts and methods of their analysis do and do not prove useful when applied beyond the original focus of their 'most similar systems' design and the West European and North American cases it encompassed. It is intended both to use a wider range of cases to interrogate and clarify the conceptual framework of Comparing Media Systems and to propose new models, concepts and approaches that will be useful for dealing with non-Western media systems and with processes of political transition. Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World covers, among other cases, Brazil, China, Israel, Lebanon, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Thailand.