Advancing Comparative Media and Communication Research (Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138895997 ISBN 13: 9781138895997

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

A comparative approach to media and communication research plays an important, if not indispensable, role in achieving a core mission of researchers: to delimit the generality and specificity of media and communication theories, enabling researchers to more readily identify the influence of social, political and cultural contexts in shaping media and communication phenomena. To de-Westernize and internationalize media and communication studies has thus become the way forward for overcoming the parochialism of mainstream media and communication studies. This volume reflects on what comparative media and communication research has achieved or failed to achieve, the epistemological and theoretical challenges it is facing, and the new directions in which it should be heading.

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About the Author

Joseph M. Chan is Research and Emeritus Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Francis L.F. Lee is Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138895997
• ISBN 13: 9781138895997
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 274
• Editor: Chan Joseph M., Lee Francis L. F.