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Tables of Contents for Handbook of Media and Communications Research
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of illustrations
vii
Notes on contributors
ix
Preface
xi
Introduction: the state of convergence in media and communication research
1
14
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
PART 1 HISTORY: SOURCES OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION RESEARCH
The humanities in media and communication research
15
25
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Media, culture and modern times: social science investigations
40
22
Graham Murdock
PART 2 SYSTEMATICS: PROCESSES OF MEDIATED COMMUNICATION
Media organizations
The production of media fiction
62
16
Horace Newcomb
Amanda Lotz
The production of news
78
13
Gaye tuchman
The study of international news
91
7
Stig Hjarvard
Media texts
Discourses of fact
98
19
Kim Christian Schrøder
Mediated fiction
117
21
Peter Larsen
Media audiences
Media effects: quantitative traditions
138
18
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Media reception: qualitative traditions
156
15
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Media contexts
Contexts, cutures and computers: the cultural contexts of mediated communication
171
20
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
History, media and communication
191
18
Paddy Scannell
PART 3 PRACTICE: SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES AND SOCIAL APPLICATIONS
The quantitative research process
209
26
Barrie Gunter
The qualitative research process
235
19
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
The complemtarity of qualitative methodologies in media and communication reseach
254
19
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
The social origins and uses of media and communication research
273
21
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
References
294
32
Index
326