Advancing Media Production Research: Shifting Sites, Methods, and Politics

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Production Research: Continuity and Transformation....Pages 3-19
On the Vagaries of Production Research....Pages 20-37
The Importance of Time in Media Production Research....Pages 38-50
Front Matter....Pages 50-51
Field Theory and Media Production: A Bridge-Building Strategy....Pages 53-67
Studying News Production: From Process to Meanings....Pages 68-78
News Media Ecosystems and Population Dynamics: A Cross-Cultural Analysis....Pages 79-94
Micro vs. Macro: A Reflection on the Potentials of Field Analysis....Pages 95-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Applying Grounded Theory in Media Production Studies....Pages 115-130
The Qualitative Interview in Media Production Studies....Pages 131-146
When You Can’t Rely on Public or Private: Using the Ethnographic Self as Resource....Pages 147-160
Investigating the Backstage of Newswriting with Process Analysis....Pages 161-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
From ‘Poetics’ to ‘Production’: Genres as Active Ingredients in Media Production....Pages 181-199
Production Studies and Documentary Participants: A Method....Pages 200-216
A Cultural Biography of Application Software....Pages 217-232
Epilogue....Pages 233-235
Back Matter....Pages 237-240