International Media Research
Subtitle: A Critical Survey
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 30, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780415090353
Subjects: Cultural studies; Media Studies; Politics/International Relations; Communication Research; Mass Communication; Sociology; Research; Mass media; Mass media and culture; Mass media policy
First sentence: In recent years, media research has enjoyed explosive growth as the centrality of the media to contemporary societies has increasingly imposed itself on our consciousness.
Description: International Media Research offers a rigorous and critical review of key approaches and concerns that have recently defined the field of media research. The contributors to this volume analyse and reflect upon dominant themes and debates that have made media research an increasingly important element of political, social and cultural enquiry.

The book opens with an introduction which surveys the current state of the field, and continues with a critical evaluation of the work of the leading media scholar, Elihu Katz. It goes on to explore the relationship between media studies and adjacent fields: cultural studies and new work on gender and sexuality.

Contributors drawn from the UK, USA, Canada and Belgium consider the relationships between media research and media policy in different national and international contexts. Focusing on the European Union, East-Central Europe, North America and Latin America, these chapters assess the impact of social, economic and political circumstances on policy debates and the shaping of a research agenda.

The final chapter adopts a transatlantic perspective in tracing and analysing the history of the media's role in reporting war. This major survey firmly places media research in the wider context of political and social change and its analysis, and provides a defining but also questioning perspective on its achievements.