The Handbook of Global Media Research

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
 
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

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.