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