Description
Book SynopsisDrawing 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 discurs
Table of Contents
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Media Organization and Production - Simon Cottle Mapping the Field PART TWO: GLOBAL CORPORATIONS, LOCAL ALTERNATIVES Corporate Media, Global Capitalism - Robert W McChesney Organization and Production in Alternative Media - Chris Atton PART THREE: CORPORATE CHANGE AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES Strategizing Technological Innovation - Timothy Marjoribanks The Case of News Corporation Organizational Culture inside the BBC and CNN - Lucy K[um]ung-Shankleman PART FOUR: PRODUCERS PRACTICES AND THE PRODUCTION OF CULTURAL FORMS The Brains Trust - Paddy Scannell An Historical Study of the Management of Liveness on Radio Journalists With a Difference - Eamonn Forde Producing Music Journalism Cultures of Production - Julian Matthews The Making of Children′s News PART FIVE: CHANGING INTERNATIONAL GENRES AND PRODUCTION ECOLOGIES International TV and Film Co-Production - Doris Baltruschat A Canadian Case Study Producing Nature(s) - Simon Cottle The Changing Production Ecology of Natural History TV
