Handbook of Global Media Research

Ingrid Volkmer is Associate Professor and Head of the Media and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has held visiting positions at the LSE, Harvard and MIT. She has widely published in the area of transnational political communication and implications on societies and cultures.

• Notes on Contributors viiiIntroduction 1Ingrid VolkmerPart I History of Transnational Media Research 71 Comparative Research and the History of Communication Studies 9John D.H. Downing2 Global Media Research and Global Ambitions: The Case of UNESCO 28Cees J. Hamelink3 Global Media Research: Can We Know Global Audiences? A View from a BBC Perspective 40Graham MyttonPart II Re-conceptualizing Research across Globalized Network Cultures 554 Media and Hegemonic Populism: Representing the Rise of the Rest 57Jan Nederveen Pieterse5 Digitization and Knowledge Systems of the Powerful and the Powerless 74Saskia Sassen6 Media Cultures in a Global Age: A Transcultural Approach to an Expanded Spectrum 92Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp7 Deconstructing the “Methodological Paradox”: Comparative Research between National Centrality and Networked Spaces 110Ingrid Volkmer8 Footprints of the Global South: Venesat-1 and RascomQAF/1R as Counter-hegemonic Satellites 123Lisa Parks9 Securitization and Legitimacy in Global Media Governance: Spaces, Jurisdictions, and Tensions 143Katharine Sarikakis10 Emerging Transnational News Spheres in Global Crisis Reporting: A Research Agenda 156Maria Hellman and Kristina Riegert11 The “Global Public Sphere”: A Critical Reappraisal 175Kai HafezPart III Supra- and Sub-national Spheres: Researching Transnational Spaces 19312 Middle East Media Research: Problems and Approaches 195Dina Matar and Ehab Bessaiso13 Media Industries and Policy in Digital Times: A Latin American Perspective of Notes and Methods 212Rodrigo Gómez García14 Methodological Pluralism: Interrogating Ethnic Identity and Diaspora Issues in Southeast Asia 227Umi Khattab15 “Citizen Access to Information”: Capturing the Evidence across Zambia, Ghana, and Kenya 245Gerry Power, Samia Khatun, and Klara Debeljak16 India and a New Cartography of Global Communication 276Daya Kishan Thussu17 What Is Governance? Citizens’ Perspectives on Governance in Sierra Leone and Tanzania 289Vipul Khosla and Kavita Abraham Dowsing18 Forced Migrants, New Media Practices, and the Creation of Locality 312Saskia WittebornPart IV Identifying Spheres of Comparison in Globalized Contexts 33119 Researching the News Agencies 333Oliver Boyd-Barrett20 Global Internets: Media Research in the New World 352Gerard Goggin21 Media, Diaspora, and the Transnational Context: Cosmopolitanizing Cross-National Comparative Research? 365Myria Georgiou22 Post-colonial Interventions on Media, Audiences, and National Politics 381Ramaswami Harindranath23 Media Research and Satellite Cultures: Comparative Research among Arab Communities in Europe 397Christina Slade and Ingrid Volkmer24 Stardust in the Audience’s Eyes: Weddings as Media Events in Visual Media and the Construction of Gender 411Eva FlickerPart V Comparative Research and Contexts of Challenges 43325 Lost, Found, and Made: Qualitative Data in the Study of Three-Step Flows of Communication 435Klaus Bruhn Jensen26 Finding Yourself in the Past, the Present, the Local, and the Global: Potentialities of Mediated Cosmopolitanism as a Research Methodology 451Ruth Teer-Tomaselli and Lauren Dyll-Myklebust27 Europe: A Laboratory for Comparative Communication Research 470Claes H. de Vreese and Rens Vliegenthart28 The Global–Local in News Production Tales from the Field in the “Shoes” of Journalists 485Lisbeth Clausen29 “Africa Talks Climate”: Comparing Audience Understandings of Climate Change in Ten African Countries 504Anna Godfrey, Miriam Burton, and Emily LeRoux-Rutledge30 Organizing and Managing Comparative Research Projects across Nations: Models and Challenges of Coordinated Collaboration 521Frank Esser and Thomas Hanitzsch31 Benefits and Pitfalls of Comparative Research on News: Production, Content, and Audiences 533Akiba A. CohenIndex 547

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