Media Organization and Production

Front Cover
Simon Cottle
SAGE, May 2, 2003 - Social Science - 203 pages
Drawing on the work of international contributors Media Organization and Production examines a wide range of global-local media organizations and the production of different mediums and genres. Following the editor's introduction which sets out the principal differences of approach and defining debates, chapters address: transnational and national, commercial and public service corporations; international film and TV co-productions; children's television news production, the historical development of 'liveness' on radio, and music journalism; the politics and organizational forms of alternative media production including radical newspapers, video and the internet; and the changing 'production ecology' of natural history television.

These topics are examined through a variety of theoretical and conceptual frameworks that help to illuminate how cultural production often involves a complex articulation of differing influences and constraints, both material and discursive, intended and unintended, structurally determined and culturally mediated.Together the chapters in this book help to recover this complexity and thereby help us to better understand the nature and output of today's media.

 

Contents

Global Corporations Local Alternatives
25
List of figures
34
Corporate Change and Organisational Cultures
57
Producers Practices and the Production of Cultural Forms
97
Changing International Genres and Production Ecologies
147
1
153
References
188
Index
198
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Bibliographic information