Communication Research and Media Science in Europe
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Communication Research and Media Science in Europe

Perspectives for Research and Academic Training in Europe's Changing Media Reality

  1. 672 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Communication Research and Media Science in Europe

Perspectives for Research and Academic Training in Europe's Changing Media Reality

About this book

Never before has the discipline of communication been more exciting, diverse, and innovative than it is today. This volume reflects the current developments in communication research and media science with topics including audience research, internet communication, organizational communication, studies on media use and effects, and educational and intercultural media. It represents the voices of over 40 European and North American scholars. Reflecting similarities and differences in media culture in Europe and abroad, the volume contains many important contributions from an insider point of view to European media research.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Part One: General Perspectives
  3. 1.1 Communication Research and Media Science in Europe: Research and Academic Training at a Turning Point
  4. 1.2 Interactivity: The New Media Use Option ā€“ State of the Art
  5. Part Two: The Mass Media in Perspective: Where are They Heading?
  6. 2.1 New Trends in TV and Radio Research
  7. 2.2 Acceptance and Diffusion of Digital Television in Germany
  8. 2.3 Making Money, Making Meaning: The Role of Communication in the Construction of a Television Station Culture
  9. 2.4 The Publisher: Tutor of the Information Society
  10. 2.5 Media Assessment: The Future of Media Ethics
  11. Part Three: New Findings in Media Use and Media Effects Research
  12. 3.1 Media Effects Research 2002: State of the Art
  13. 3.2 Lonely Viewers? Familiesā€™ Organization of Space and the Allocation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the Home
  14. 3.3 ā€œFree Mindsā€: Prisonersā€™ Interpretations of Media Phenomena
  15. 3.4 Economic Affairs, Media Coverage, and the Publicā€™s Perception of the Economy in Germany
  16. 3.5 Prognosis Methods on Television Viewing Patterns for Target Audiences
  17. Part Four: Online Communication: Present Status and Future Perspectives
  18. 4.1 Online Communication: Putting the Knowledge Gap Theory into Perspective
  19. 4.2 Cyber-TV and The New Interactivity: The GIGA Case
  20. 4.3 ā€œIs there anybody out there?ā€ Creative Language Play and ā€œLiterarinessā€ in Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
  21. 4.4 Ethnography on the Net: Language, Culture, and Communications
  22. 4.5 Explorations in Studentsā€™ Sense-Making of the Internet
  23. Part Five: European Research on Interpersonal and Organizational Communication
  24. 5.1 Management of Organizational Communication in The Netherlands: Glass Ceiling and Encroachment
  25. 5.2 The Advance of Public Relations as a Discipline: Retrospect and Prospect
  26. 5.3 A Comparative Study of Communicative Skill: Theory and Practice
  27. 5.4 Voice and Power: A Criticai Investigation of Accounts of Bullying in Organizations
  28. 5.5 The Structure and Agency of Communion Dimension in Interpersonal Communicative Interaction
  29. Part Six: Perspectives on Children, Gender, and Political Culture in Media Research
  30. 6.1 Engaged from Birth: Children Under Two Talking on Telephones
  31. 6.2 Everyday Discursive Practices and The Construction of Gender: A Study at the ā€œGrass Rootsā€
  32. 6.3 Images of the First Female Prime Minister of Turkey: An Analysis of Political Cartoons in the Turkish Newspapers
  33. 6.4 The Forgotten Europe of Small Community Media: The Basque Experience
  34. 6.5 Working Together, Living Apart: Inter-Group Communication within Organizations in Northern Ireland
  35. Part Seven: Big Brother is Watching You? Communication Research and Media Development in Europe - Comments from Abroad
  36. 7.1 Interaction between Online Communication and TV-Viewing: Current Status and Future Perspectives
  37. 7.2 Can Big Brother and His Siblings Play Together More? The Potential for Transatlantic Work on Media Coverage of Science and the Environment
  38. 7.3 The Converging Approaches of American and European Dialogue: Combining Pragmatic and Theoretical Ideas in the Resolution of Complex Problems
  39. Contributors
  40. Author Index
  41. Subject Index