Overview
- Offers a critical map to navigate the field of Media Governance.
- Develops Cosmopolitan Critique as a decentering methodological approach
- Contributes to the De-Westernization of Media and Communication Studies
Part of the book series: Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series (GTMCR)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Concepts and Epistemology
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Critique and Ambivalences: Assessing Media Governance
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New Perspectives and Conceptual Innovations
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About this book
The book offers a critical map to navigate the field of media governance. A thread of cosmopolitan critique connects the fourteen chapters to enhance media governance literature beyond the West and regional foci. The first part addresses the epistemological and ontological flaws in the use and adaptation of media governance. The second part opens pathways for critique and provides a thorough understanding of the ambivalences that scholars encounter when addressing media governance as a field of study. The third part highlights shortcomings like geographical narrowness and tensions in the use of media governance concepts. The scholarly contributions show that media governance as a field of study is far from being established: its conceptualizations are in flux and need scholarly self-reflection, and ongoing discussions need to leave behind universalist conceptualizations and methods of analysis. The chapters reflect on hegemony, power, sovereignty, and identity as conceptual center points in media governance research. The book uniquely breaks with self-referential Western academia and is part of ongoing collaborative scholarly efforts towards epistemic transformation through dialogue.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sarah Anne Ganter is Assistant Professor of Communication and Cultural Policy in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Her work is influenced by a cosmopolitan approach to academic work, integrating scholarly work from different cultural, linguistic and geographical academic settings She has published widely on media governance, digital policy and regulation, and journalism, and analyzes media and digital policy transformations from a theoretical perspective that focuses on the dynamics and interactions shaping institutional fields. Her work is published in scholarly journals, international book projects, including the co-authored book “The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society.”
Hanan Badr is Professor for Public Spheres and Inequalities at the Department of Communication, University of Salzburg, Austria. Her work focuses comparing media systems, diversifying communication research, globalization and digitization transform journalism and She held positions at Freie Universität Berlin, Cairo University, Gulf University for Sciences and Technology and Orient-Institut Beirut. Her work was published in Digital Journalism, International Communication Gazette, Media & Communication and Media, War & Conflict. Hanan won awards including the Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress and the DAAD Scholarship Award. She was elected as a Vice-Chair for the Activism, Communication and Social Change at the International Communication Association and serves as Regional Liasion Coordinator for AEJMC International Communication Division ICD.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Media Governance
Book Subtitle: A Cosmopolitan Critique
Editors: Sarah Anne Ganter, Hanan Badr
Series Title: Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05020-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05019-0Published: 01 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05022-0Published: 01 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-05020-6Published: 30 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-5978
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5986
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 318
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media Policy, Media and Communication