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Foreword to 'Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research' -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- EDITOR Biography -- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research -- Where We Are and Where We Want to Go -- The Structure of the Book -- References -- Part I: Materiality -- Chapter 2: Engaging (Past) Participants: The Case of radicalprintshops.org -- Someone Should Do a History Before We All Die -- Problem Context No. 1 -- Problem Context No. 2 -- Setting Up the Wiki -- Challenge No. 1 -- Challenge No. 2 -- Challenge No. 3 -- Under Maintenance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: A Materialist Media Ecological Approach to Studying Urban Media in/of Place -- Methodological Orientations of Existing Research on Urban Places -- A Comparative Approach to the Study of Site-Specific Media -- Actor-Network Theory and the Inclusion of Non-Human Actors in the Making of Place -- Locative and Place-Based Media Experiments -- Materialist Media Ecologies -- Naïve Experimentation as Method -- Instagram as a Way of Seeing the City -- The North Kelvin Meadow Campaign -- @ilovenorthkelvinmeadow: An Ambivalent Revaluation and Failed Politicization of Place via Instagram -- Learning from the Surprises and Failures of a Naïve Experimentation with Instagram -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Socio-spatial Approaches for Media and Communication Research -- Socio-spatial Attributes of the Digital Realm -- Merging the Approaches of Socio-spatial and Media Research -- Approaching the Digital Realm as a Place of Memory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Technology -- Chapter 5: Neither Black Nor Box: Ways of Knowing Algorithms -- Revisiting the Black-Boxed 'Nature' of Algorithms -- Ways of Knowing Algorithms: Three Steps to Consider

While some academic attentional has been paid to the impact of new digital technologies on African media in the colonial languages of English, French and Portuguese, there is a dearth of research into African language digital communication. This book analysess the online presence of African language media, The chapters in the book focus on the speed, structure, content, navigation and interactivity, operations and performance,and the audience of the online media. They also pay particular attention to how social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp have been appropriated by Africa language media. Using a wide range of case studes, the contributors assess the challenges of adopting digital technologies by the media, and how the technologies have impacted journalistic practice and media operations. Examing the ability of the African language press to adopt new technologies, this book will be of interest to scholars of media, journalism, communication, social media and culture in Africa.

The essay argues that even though mobile may soon become less distinctive as a niche form of communication, Mobile Media and Communication will remain relevant through a focus on "mobile" from both the historical and user perspective. These stances encourage reflection. Keeping a critical stance and focusing on users in our work is absolutely essential.

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction to media and communication governance: from labelling to theorizing and practice -- Part I Theorizing governance -- 2. Sociological institutionalism: conceptualizing media governance as institution and organization -- 3. Historical institutionalism -- 4. Discursive institutionalism -- 5. Critical political economy: inside or outside the tent? -- 6. The political economies of communication, 'big tech' and cultural industries from the 'industrial age' to the 'internet era' -- 7. Co-evolution: applications and implications for governance research in communication studies -- 8. Theories of the policy process -- 9. Critical discourse analysis and telecommunications policy: the myth of technological neutrality -- Part II Challenges for governance -- 10. The independence of media regulatory authorities 'on the books' and 'on the ground' -- 11. Transnationalization of media and governance -- 12. Done is better than perfect: evidence, governance, power and platform regulation -- 13. Participatory and collaborative governance -- 14. Diversity in governance -- 15. Anticolonial world-making: racial justice and global communication governance -- Part III Governance forms and levels -- 16. Realigning incentives through formal media, communications and platform governance -- 17. Governance through a crisis: media regulation in nondemocratic systems -- 18. Ants among elephants: regulatory challenges in countries without globally dominant players -- 19. Industry-level self- and co-regulation in media and communications -- 20. Private ordering of media organisations and platform operators -- 21. Media accountability and ethics in Africa -- 22. Governance by technological design, a critique -- 23. Multi-level governance.

While some academic attentional has been paid to the impact of new digital technologies on African media in the colonial languages of English, French and Portuguese, there is a dearth of research into African language digital communication. This book analysess the online presence of African language media, The chapters in the book focus on the speed, structure, content, navigation and interactivity, operations and performance,and the audience of the online media. They also pay particular attention to how social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp have been appropriated by Africa language media. Using a wide range of case studes, the contributors assess the challenges of adopting digital technologies by the media, and how the technologies have impacted journalistic practice and media operations. Examing the ability of the African language press to adopt new technologies, this book will be of interest to scholars of media, journalism, communication, social media and culture in Africa

After a general mapping of the different understandings of affect, this article focuses on two aspects of a Deleuze-Guattarian understanding of affect which are of particular relevance for media and communication studies. The first is understanding affect as potential. It is through the forces of encounter that bodies are affected and that these affections then can be turned into action, into their capacity to affect. The second is understanding the perpetual becoming that takes place through continual encounters between bodies; with each encounter, the body changes, however slightly and subtly. The concept of assemblage that allows one to grasp these dynamics and complexities is discussed as an approach towards a much more complex theoretical grounding for processes of agency and power. Working with affect in media and communication studies, a three-fold strategy will be presented: to analyse how media generate affects and capitalise on them; to analyse what media do - in the sense of mobilizing potential; to analyse phenomena of mediated communication as assemblages. The article ends with challenges and new paths for conducting research on affect.

Explores the ways that editorial content--from journalism and scholarship to films and infomercials--is developed, presented, stored, analyzed, and regulated around the world. For readers and researchers of all levels, the Encyclopedia provides perspective and context about content, delivery systems, and their myriad relationships, as well as clearly drawn avenues for further research