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Political Economy of Media and Communication: Methodological Approaches , 2024
From Routledge description: The first book dedicated specifically to research methods in the poli... more From Routledge description: The first book dedicated specifically to research methods in the political economy of media and communication, it provides a methodological toolkit to investigate the functioning of media, technology, and cultural industries in their historical, institutional, structural, and systemic contexts.
Featuring contributions from across the globe and a variety of methodological perspectives, this volume presents the state of the art in political economy of media and communication methods, articulating those methods with adjacent approaches, to study concentration of ownership and power, pluralism and diversity, regulation and public policies, governance, genderization, and sustainability. This collection charts the methodological innovations critical political economists are adopting to analyse a rapidly transforming digital media landscape, exploring ideology, narratives, socio-analysis and praxis in communication with ethnographic and participatory approaches, as well as designs for quantitative and qualitative methods of textual, discourse and content analysis, network analyses, which consider power relations affecting communication, including intersectional oppressions and the new developments taking place in artificial intelligence.
An essential text for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers in the areas of media, cultural and communication studies, particularly those studying topics such as the political economy of media and/or communication, media and communication theory, and research methods.
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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles & Essays
International Journal of Communication, 2018
The political economy of communication (PEC) situates media systems and practices in their struct... more The political economy of communication (PEC) situates media systems and practices in their structural and historical contexts; however, PEC scholars rarely articulate or justify their research methods. To address this oversight, this article explains how PEC scholars use trade publications to study media industries, practices, policy making, and discourses thereof. Following a critical realist approach, PEC researchers “burrow down” in trade press advertisements and reports and “listen in” to the frank, insider discussions therein. This article evaluates the trade press against Scott’s four “quality control criteria” for documentary sources—authenticity, credibility, representativeness, and meaning. Trade publications employ daunting industry jargon, and they can be cozy with the industries they cover. Still, the trade press provide otherwise unobtainable insights into the structure and organization of media industries, how they are regulated, and the practices and worldviews of media executives and professionals. This article argues that by approaching the trade press ethnographically, PEC researchers can reap their benefits while avoiding pitfalls.
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Political Economy of Communication, 2013
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tripleC: Communication, Capitalism, & Critique
This article reviews existing research on the motivations and experiences of interns in media and... more This article reviews existing research on the motivations and experiences of interns in media and cultural industries. Digital labour theories are used to organize and make sense of the existing internship literature. Throughout the article, parallels are also drawn between the experiences of interns and those of digital creative labourers—both professionals and peer producers. Three key themes are identified within the internship literature: 1) interns derive satisfaction from work they consider meaningful, particularly hands-on work executed under the training and trust of effective supervisors ; 2) interns see their work as future-oriented investments in their skills, professional networks, and personal brands; and 3) the ambiguity and professional necessity of media and cultural industries internships make them fertile ground for exploitation and self-exploitation. In conclusion, I argue that attentiveness to meaning, temporality, and ambiguity will be essential to future critical investigations of internships.
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Journalism: Theory, Practice, Criticism, 2011
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International Journal of Sport Communication, 2010
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Journal of Intercollegiate Sport, 2011
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Journal of Intercollegiate Sport, 2011
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Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, 2012
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Journal of Sports Media, Jan 1, 2008
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Book Chapters
Political economy of media and communication: Methodological approaches, 2024
Several leading political economy of media and communication (PEMC) scholars have identified crit... more Several leading political economy of media and communication (PEMC) scholars have identified critical realism (CR) as PEMC's underlying epistemological framework. However, the full implications of CR for PEMC have yet to be explicated. So, this chapter outlines CR's “three pillars” – ontological realism, epistemological fallibilism, and judgmental rationality – and it relates them to PEMC. CR argues that social researchers can develop knowledge (albeit fallibly) about deep structures and processes (e.g. class power, capital accumulation, and hegemonic ideology) and their role in everyday life, including media production and consumption. However, because media and social processes are deep, complex, and open, we need methods and methodologies that are adapted to such a reality. Specifically, CR stresses the epistemological and methodological importance of conceptualization, and it identifies two complementary approaches for studying social processes: conceptual abstraction via structural analysis and causal analysis via abduction and retroduction. The chapter points to examples of these approaches in the PEMC literature, and, in doing so, it helps flesh out PEMC's “method of theorizing” (Nixon, 2015).
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Media Education for a Digital Generation
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Cultural, Political and Geographical Aspects, 2012
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The ESPN Effect: Exploring the Worldwide Leader in Sports, 2015
The existing literature on ESPN tends to explain the network’s phenomenal success as a function o... more The existing literature on ESPN tends to explain the network’s phenomenal success as a function of savvy executives, charismatic talent, and Americans’ insatiable appetite for sports. Each of these factors has certainly been important; however, ESPN did not achieve its dominance in a vacuum. This chapter identifies several key law and policy developments that since the 1960s have shaped the sports, cable, and satellite television industries in ways that were fortuitous for ESPN. Yes, ESPN’s executives recognized Americans’ demand for live sports and witty banter; however, there is nothing natural or inevitable about the markets for sports or media. They are products of struggle over law and policy, and ESPN has been a clear beneficiary of those struggles.
Keywords: ESPN, Political Economy of the Media, Cable Television, Media History, Media Policy
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Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media, 2014
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Public Scholarship
Inland Empire MediaWatch, 2023
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Claremont Courier, 2021
A ghostly specter haunts California's Inland Empire. Several do, in fact. They appear at our door... more A ghostly specter haunts California's Inland Empire. Several do, in fact. They appear at our doorsteps and in our news feeds as pillars of the community-our local newspapers. But while they may look and feel like the "local rag," a closer examination reveals them to be apparitions. And that should send a shiver up the spine of anyone who cares about local civic life. Now, this isn't a screed about some "fake news" boogeyman. In fact, most local editors and journalists do a commendable job with the limited resources available to them. Rather, the problem is that Inland Empire newspapers-particularly the local dailies-don't produce all that much local news.
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Dissertation & Thesis
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Page 1. THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION FANTASY FANS?: COMPARING TEAM IDENT... more Page 1. THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION FANTASY FANS?: COMPARING TEAM IDENTIFICATION AMONG FANTASY FOOTBALL PLAYERS AND NON-FANTASY FOOTBALL PLAYERS By THOMAS FITZPATRICK CORRIGAN ...
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Encyclopedia Entries
Encyclopedia of Sports Management and Marketing, 2011
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Featuring contributions from across the globe and a variety of methodological perspectives, this volume presents the state of the art in political economy of media and communication methods, articulating those methods with adjacent approaches, to study concentration of ownership and power, pluralism and diversity, regulation and public policies, governance, genderization, and sustainability. This collection charts the methodological innovations critical political economists are adopting to analyse a rapidly transforming digital media landscape, exploring ideology, narratives, socio-analysis and praxis in communication with ethnographic and participatory approaches, as well as designs for quantitative and qualitative methods of textual, discourse and content analysis, network analyses, which consider power relations affecting communication, including intersectional oppressions and the new developments taking place in artificial intelligence.
An essential text for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers in the areas of media, cultural and communication studies, particularly those studying topics such as the political economy of media and/or communication, media and communication theory, and research methods.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles & Essays
Book Chapters
Keywords: ESPN, Political Economy of the Media, Cable Television, Media History, Media Policy
Public Scholarship
Dissertation & Thesis
Encyclopedia Entries
Featuring contributions from across the globe and a variety of methodological perspectives, this volume presents the state of the art in political economy of media and communication methods, articulating those methods with adjacent approaches, to study concentration of ownership and power, pluralism and diversity, regulation and public policies, governance, genderization, and sustainability. This collection charts the methodological innovations critical political economists are adopting to analyse a rapidly transforming digital media landscape, exploring ideology, narratives, socio-analysis and praxis in communication with ethnographic and participatory approaches, as well as designs for quantitative and qualitative methods of textual, discourse and content analysis, network analyses, which consider power relations affecting communication, including intersectional oppressions and the new developments taking place in artificial intelligence.
An essential text for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers in the areas of media, cultural and communication studies, particularly those studying topics such as the political economy of media and/or communication, media and communication theory, and research methods.
Keywords: ESPN, Political Economy of the Media, Cable Television, Media History, Media Policy