Ingrid Volkmer is Associate Professor and Head of the Media and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has held visiting positions at the LSE, Harvard and MIT. She has widely published in the area of transnational political communication and implications on societies and cultures.

Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1
Ingrid Volkmer Part I History of Transnational Media Research 7 1 Comparative Research and the History of Communication Studies 9
John D.H. Downing 2 Global Media Research and Global Ambitions: The Case of UNESCO 28
Cees J. Hamelink 3 Global Media Research: Can We Know Global Audiences? A View from a BBC Perspective 40Graham Mytton Part II Re-conceptualizing Research across Globalized Network Cultures 55 4 Media and Hegemonic Populism: Representing the Rise of the Rest 57
Jan Nederveen Pieterse 5 Digitization and Knowledge Systems of the Powerful and the Powerless 74
Saskia Sassen 6 Media Cultures in a Global Age: A Transcultural Approach to an Expanded Spectrum 92
Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp 7 Deconstructing the "Methodological Paradox": Comparative Research between National Centrality and Networked Spaces 110
Ingrid Volkmer 8 Footprints of the Global South: Venesat-1 and RascomQAF/1R as Counter-hegemonic Satellites 123
Lisa Parks 9 Securitization and Legitimacy in Global Media Governance: Spaces, Jurisdictions, and Tensions 143
Katharine Sarikakis 10 Emerging Transnational News Spheres in Global Crisis Reporting: A Research Agenda 156
Maria Hellman and Kristina Riegert 11 The "Global Public Sphere": A Critical Reappraisal 175Kai Hafez Part III Supra- and Sub-national Spheres: Researching Transnational Spaces 193 12 Middle East Media Research: Problems and Approaches 195
Dina Matar and Ehab Bessaiso 13 Media Industries and Policy in Digital Times: A Latin American Perspective of Notes and Methods 212
Rodrigo Gómez García 14 Methodological Pluralism: Interrogating Ethnic Identity and Diaspora Issues in Southeast Asia 227
Umi Khattab 15 "Citizen Access to Information": Capturing the Evidence across Zambia, Ghana, and Kenya 245
Gerry Power, Samia Khatun, and Klara Debeljak 16 India and a New Cartography of Global Communication 276
Daya Kishan Thussu 17 What Is Governance? Citizens' Perspectives on Governance in Sierra Leone and Tanzania 289
Vipul Khosla and Kavita Abraham Dowsing 18 Forced Migrants, New Media Practices, and the Creation of Locality 312Saskia Witteborn Part IV Identifying Spheres of Comparison in Globalized Contexts 331 19 Researching the News Agencies 333
Oliver Boyd-Barrett 20 Global Internets: Media Research in the New World 352
Gerard Goggin 21 Media, Diaspora, and the Transnational Context: Cosmopolitanizing Cross-National Comparative Research? 365
Myria Georgiou 22 Post-colonial Interventions on Media, Audiences, and National Politics 381
Ramaswami Harindranath 23 Media Research and Satellite Cultures: Comparative Research among Arab Communities in Europe 397
Christina Slade and Ingrid Volkmer 24 Stardust in the Audience's Eyes: Weddings as Media Events in Visual Media and the Construction of Gender 411Eva Flicker Part V Comparative Research and Contexts of Challenges 433 25 Lost, Found, and Made: Qualitative Data in the Study of Three-Step Flows of Communication 435
Klaus Bruhn Jensen 26 Finding Yourself in the Past, the Present, the Local, and the Global: Potentialities of Mediated Cosmopolitanism as a Research Methodology 451
Ruth Teer-Tomaselli and Lauren Dyll-Myklebust [...]ope: A Laboratory for Comparative Communication Research 470
Claes H. de Vreese and Rens Vliegenthart 28 The Global-Local in News Production Tales from the Field in the "Shoes" of Journalists 485
Lisbeth Clausen 29 "Africa Talks Climate": Comparing Audience Understandings of Climate Change in Ten African Countries 504
Anna Godfrey, Miriam Burton, and Emily LeRoux-Rutledge 30 Organizing and Managing Comparative Research Projects across Nations: Models and Challenges of Coordinated Collaboration 521
Frank Esser and Thomas Hanitzsch 31 Benefits and Pitfalls of Comparative Research on News: Production, Content, and Audiences 533
Akiba A. Cohen Index 547