Media Organization and Production

by Simon Cottle

• ISBN13: 9780761974949
• ISBN10: 0761974946
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-06
• 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

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