The Handbook of Global Media Research “Ingrid Volkmer has collected an admirably rich, thought-provoking, and diverse collection of views to guide critical scholarship as our topic (‘the media’ and ‘media cultures’), methods (which must now be comparative), and the knowledge we produce are all transformed by globalization” Sonia Livingstone, author of Media Regulation: Governance and the Interests of Citizens and Consumers “In this handbook, leading academic and practitioner analysts give us valuable insight into globalized forms of communication, their diversity, the global/local dialectic, and the challenges of critical historical and comparative study of transnational media and communication.” Robin Mansell, author of Imagining the Internet: Communication, Innovation, and Governance “With a stellar list of contributors and an engagement with the global that both traces and transcends its boundaries, Ingrid Volkmer’s volume is the cardinal chart of our media worlds.” Mark Deuze, author of Media Life and Media Works “This is a long-overdue volume. The distinguished contributors to The Handbook of Global Media Research have produced a challenging and authoritative guide to understanding the latest developments in global media.” Thomas R. Lindlof, University of Kentucky As new forms of media proliferate, and communication becomes ever more global, transnational media is increasingly capable of both enhancing political, cultural, and economic globalization and shaping worldviews and civic identity. Research into the development of transnational media is therefore an essential element of understanding the changes created by advanced globalization. The Handbook of Global Media Research explores and articulates the key themes and competing approaches of this dynamic and developing field. Bringing together the ideas of more than 40 internationally respected authors from around the world, it provides valuable and varied insights into a globalized media landscape, setting the agenda for the future of transnational media and communications research.

Table of Contents:
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 245 Gerry Power, Samia Khatun, and Klara Debeljak 16 India and a New Cartography of Global Communication 276 Daya Kishan Thussu 17 What Is Governance? Citizens’ Perspectives on Governance in Sierra Leone and Tanzania 289 Vipul Khosla and Kavita Abraham Dowsing 18 Forced Migrants, New Media Practices, and the Creation of Locality 312 Saskia Witteborn Part IV Identifying Spheres of Comparison in Globalized Contexts 331 19 Researching the News Agencies 333 Oliver Boyd-Barrett 20 Global Internets: Media Research in the New World 352 Gerard Goggin 21 Media, Diaspora, and the Transnational Context: Cosmopolitanizing Cross-National Comparative Research? 365 Myria Georgiou 22 Post-colonial Interventions on Media, Audiences, and National Politics 381 Ramaswami Harindranath 23 Media Research and Satellite Cultures: Comparative Research among Arab Communities in Europe 397 Christina Slade and Ingrid Volkmer 24 Stardust in the Audience’s Eyes: Weddings as Media Events in Visual Media and the Construction of Gender 411 Eva Flicker Part V Comparative Research and Contexts of Challenges 433 25 Lost, Found, and Made: Qualitative Data in the Study of Three-Step Flows of Communication 435 Klaus Bruhn Jensen 26 Finding Yourself in the Past, the Present, the Local, and the Global: Potentialities of Mediated Cosmopolitanism as a Research Methodology 451 Ruth Teer-Tomaselli and Lauren Dyll-Myklebust 27 Europe: A Laboratory for Comparative Communication Research 470 Claes H. de Vreese and Rens Vliegenthart 28 The Global–Local in News Production Tales from the Field in the “Shoes” of Journalists 485 Lisbeth Clausen 29 “Africa Talks Climate”: Comparing Audience Understandings of Climate Change in Ten African Countries 504 Anna Godfrey, Miriam Burton, and Emily LeRoux-Rutledge 30 Organizing and Managing Comparative Research Projects across Nations: Models and Challenges of Coordinated Collaboration 521 Frank Esser and Thomas Hanitzsch 31 Benefits and Pitfalls of Comparative Research on News: Production, Content, and Audiences 533 Akiba A. Cohen Index 547