Communication research and media science in europe : perspectives for research and academic training in europe's changing media reality /

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, stud...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Campbell, William (Editor); Schenk, Michael (Editor); Schorr, Angela (Editor)
Published: De Gruyter Mouton,
Publisher Address: Berlin/Boston :
Publication Dates: [2013]
©2002
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110849202
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Summary: 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.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(xvi,656pages) : illustrations
Also available in print edition.
Bibliography: 43 schw.-w. Abb., 44 schw.-w. Tab.
ISBN: 9783110849202
Index Number: P92
CLC: G206.3
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
1.1 Communication Research and Media Science in Europe: Research and Academic Training at a Turning Point /
1.2 Interactivity: The New Media Use Option State of the Art /
2.1 New Trends in TV and Radio Research /
2.2 Acceptance and Diffusion of Digital Television in Germany /
2.3 Making Money, Making Meaning: The Role of Communication in the Construction of a Television Station Culture /
2.4 The Publisher: Tutor of the Information Society /
2.5 Media Assessment: The Future of Media Ethics /
3.1 Media Effects Research 2002: State of the Art /
3.2 Lonely Viewers? Families' Organization of Space and the Allocation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the Home /
3.4 Economic Affairs, Media Coverage, and the Public's Perception of the Economy in Germany /
3.5 Prognosis Methods on Television Viewing Patterns for Target Audiences /
4.1 Online Communication: Putting the Knowledge Gap Theory into Perspective /
4.2 Cyber-TV and The New Interactivity: The GIGA Case /
4.3 "Is there anybody out there?" Creative Language Play and "Literariness" in Internet Relay Chat (IRC) /
4.4 Ethnography on the Net: Language, Culture, and Communications /
4.5 Explorations in Students Sense-Making of the Internet /
5.1 Management of Organizational Communication in The Netherlands: Glass Ceiling and Encroachment /
5.2 The Advance of Public Relations as a Discipline: Retrospect and Prospect /
5.3 A Comparative Study of Communicative Skill: Theory and Practice /
5.4 Voice and Power: A Critical Investigation of Accounts of Bullying in Organizations /
5.5 The Structure and Agency of Communion Dimension in Interpersonal Communicative Interaction /
6.1 Engaged from Birth: Children Under Two Talking on Telephones /
6.2 Everyday Discursive Practices and The Construction of Gender: A Study at the "Grass Roots" /
6.3 Images of the First Female Prime Minister of Turkey: An Analysis of Political Cartoons in the Turkish Newspapers /
6.4 The Forgotten Europe of Small Community Media: The Basque Experience /
6.5 Working Together, Living Apart: Inter-Group Communication within Organizations in Northern Ireland /
7.1 Interaction between Online Communication and TV-Viewing: Current Status and Future Perspectives /
7.2 Can Big Brother and His Siblings Play Together More? The Potential for Transatlantic Work on Media Coverage of Science and the Environment /
7.3 The Converging Approaches of American and European Dialogue: Combining Pragmatic and Theoretical Ideas in the Resolution of Complex Problems /
Contributors --
Author Index --
Subject Index.