Advancing Media Production Research: Shifting Sites, Methods, and Politics [Paperback]

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.Ana Alacovska, Copenhagen Business School, DenmarkDan Berkowitz, University of Iowa, USAHanne Bruun, Aarhus University, DenmarkElina Erzikova, Central Michigan University, USAAstrid Gynnild, University of Bergen, NorwayFredrick Lesage, Simon Fraser University (SFU), CanadaZhengjia Liu, University of Iowa, USAWilson Lowrey, University of Alabama, USAMichael B. Munnik, University of Edinburgh, UKDaniel Perrin, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, SwitzerlandDavid M. Ryfe, University of Iowa, USAWillemien Sanders, Utrecht University, NetherlandsPhilip Schlesinger, University of Glasgow, UKTore Slaatta, University of Oslo, NorwayIda Willig, Roskilde University, Denmark 

Reachingback to production researchers root concerns with media power, thecontributors indeed advance conversations about research into the waysmedia power has diffused to new workplaces, contexts, and workers. The specialfocus on methods gives readers a buffet of options when considering their ownresearch projects. (Vicki Mayer, Tulane University, USA)