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Medienpolitik: Grundlagen für Wissenschaft und Praxis
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Manuel Puppis

München: UVK, 3., vollständig überarb. und erw. Aufl. (2023), 366 pp.

"Digitalisierung, Transnationalisierung und Kommerzialisierung stellen die Medienpolitik vor große Herausforderungen. Wie kann sichergestellt werden, dass Medien und Plattformen ihre wichtige Funktion in einer demokratischen Gesellschaft erfüllen? In diese Thematik führt Manuel Puppis systematisc ... more

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To Know is to Compare: Studying Social Media Across Nations, Media, and Platforms

Mora Matassi, Pablo J. Boczkowski

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2023), x, 212 pp.

"The authors argue that scholarship on social media has been limited by an over-reliance on single country studies that focus on one platform at a time, without considering the ties between platforms and other media. To overcome these limitations, the authors propose that social media are better und ... more

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Tradiciones de investigación en diálogo: Estudios sobre comunicación en América Latina y Europa

Fernando Oliveira Paulino, Gabriel Kaplún, Miguel Vicente Mariño, Leonardo Custódio (eds.)

Ramada (PO): Media XXI; Formalpress (2020), 358 pp.

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From Media Systems to Media Cultures: Understanding Socialist Television

Sabina Mihelj, Simon Huxtable

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2018), xiii, 369 pp.

"[The authors] delve into the fascinating world of television under communism, using it to test a new framework for comparative media analysis. To understand the societal consequences of mass communication, the authors argue that we need to move beyond the analysis of media systems, and instead focu ... more

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Comparative Media Studies in Africa: Challenges and Paradoxes

Susana Salgado

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa

Bruce Mutsvairo (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 195-211

"Drawing on previous work on the role of the media in the democratization processes of the Lusophone African countries (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe), this chapter addresses the challenges and paradoxes of conducting comparative research focused on cont ... more

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New Directions in the Study of Africa–China Media and Communications Engagements

Bob Wekesa

Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 29, issue 1 (2017), pp. 11-24

"The Africa–China media and communications field is a nascent but rapidly growing one. This paper provides an overview of the field, followed by a discussion of the theoretical pathways that can be considered as productive in taking the field forward. The paper argues for the need for rigorous the ... more

Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Nigel Simister, Vera Scholz

INTRAC (2017), 5 pp.

"Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is a methodology that enables the analysis of multiple cases in complex situations. It can help explain why change happens in some cases but not others. QCA is designed for use with an intermediate number of cases, typically between 10 and 50. It can be used i ... more

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Methodological Reflections on Researching Communication and Social Change

Norbert Wildermuth, Teke Ngomba (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xii, 219 pp.

"This book identifies the strengths and weaknesses of different methodological approaches to research in communication and social change. It examines the methodological opportunities and challenges occasioned by rapid technological affordances and society-wide transformations. This study provides gr ... more

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Research Methods in Intercultural Communication: A Practical Guide

Hua Zhu (ed.)

Chichester; Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2016), xvi, 347 pp.

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Der Vergleich als Metamethode in der Kommunikationswissenschaft

Barbara Thomaß

In: Handbuch nicht standardisierte Methoden in der Kommunikationswissenschaft

Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz, Michael Meyen (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2016), pp. 49-65

"Der Beitrag stellt die Erkenntnisgewinnung durch Vergleich als das zentrale Merkmal komparativer Forschung vor und erläutert, wie das Komparative als Kern eines Forschungsvorhabens in der Kommunikationsforschung einzulösen ist. Er zeichnet die bisherige Entwicklung der komparativen Kommunikations ... more

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Cross-National Comparative Perspectives from the World Internet Project

Gustavo Cardoso, Guo Liang, Tiago Lapa

In: The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

William H. Dutton (ed.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), pp. 216-236

"This chapter reviews the diffusion, uses, and impacts of the Internet worldwide and over time. The World Internet Project has been intended to become the vehicle for tracking what happens as households and nations adopt and use the Internet. The study of the connection between the Internet and soci ... more

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Lautsprecher und Widersprecher: Ein Ansatz zum Vergleich der Mediensysteme
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Roger Blum

Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2014), 440 pp.

"Der Autor porträtiert 23 Länder aus sechs Weltregionen. Anschließend bildet er mittels des pragmatischen Differenz-Ansatzes sechs Modelle heraus: Das liberale Modell, das Public-Service-Modell, das Klientel-Modell, das Schock-Modell, das Patrioten-Modell und das Kommando-Modell. Dabei zeigt sich ... more

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Sourcebook for Political Communication Research: Methods, Measures, and Analytical Techniques

E. Page Bucy, R. Lance Holbert

New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2013), xxi, 583 pp.

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Mediensysteme im internationalen Vergleich

Barbara Thomaß (ed.)

Konstanz: UVK, 2nd ed. (2013), 378 pp.

"Das in zweiter Auflage überarbeitete Lehrbuch führt konsistent und verständlich in Theorie, Methodik und Gegenstandsbereiche der international vergleichenden Mediensystemforschung ein. Es macht mit deren Fragestellungen vertraut und arbeitet die für den Vergleich relevanten Strukturelemente her ... more

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Comparing Health Communication

John C. Pollock, Douglas Storey

In: Handbook of Comparative Communication Research

Frank Esser, Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2012), pp. 161-182

"This review of available scholarship in international health communication reveals a curious disconnect between an abundance of material available in selected nations and regions (e.g., Australia, southern Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and the United States), on the one hand, and relatively little atten ... more

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Comparing Media Systems

Jonathan Hardy

In: Handbook of Comparative Communication Research

Frank Esser, Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2012), pp. 185-206

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Handbook of Comparative Communication Research
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Frank Esser, Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2012), xxi, 544 pp.

"The Handbook of Comparative Communication Research aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of comparative communication research. It fills an obvious gap in the literature and offers an extensive and interdisciplinary discussion of the general approach of comparative research, its prospect an ... more

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Comparing Media Policy and Regulation

Manuel Puppis, Leen d'Haenens

In: Handbook of Comparative Communication Research

Frank Esser, Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2012), pp. 221-233

"While some of the mentioned problems are inherent to any comparison of media policy and regulation and are hard to avoid (e.g., due to changing regulation or differences in regulatory regimes), other pitfalls may be bypassed and pave the way for future research. First, a theory-driven approach to a ... more

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