Media Organization and Production

by Simon Cottle

• ISBN13: 9780761974932
• ISBN10: 0761974938
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-02
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vi
List of tables	vii
Notes on Contributors	viii
Acknowledgements	x
PART I Introduction	1	(24)
1 Media organisation and production: mapping the field
Simon Cottle	3	(22)
PART II Global Corporations, local Alternatives	25	(32)
2 Corporate media, global capitalism
Robert W. McChesney	27	(14)
3 Organisation and production in alternative media
Chris Atton	41	(16)
PART III Corporate Change and Organisational Cultures	57	(40)
4 Strategising technological innovation: the case of news corporation
Timothy Marjoribanks	59	(18)
5 Organisational culture inside the BBC and CNN
Lucy Küng-Shankleman	77	(20)
PART IV Producers, Practices and the Production of Cultural Forms	97	(50)
6 The Brains Trust: a historical study of the management of liveness on radio
Paddy Scannell	99	(14)
7 Journalists with a difference: producing music journalism
Eamonn Forde	113	(18)
8 Cultures of production: the making of children's news
Julian Matthews	131	(16)
PART V Changing International Genres and Production Ecologies	147	(41)
9 International TV and film co-production: a Canadian case study
Doris Baltruschat	149	(21)
10 Producing nature(s): the changing production ecology of natural history TV
Simon Cottle	170	(18)
References	188	(10)
Index	198