Action Theory and Communication Research : : Recent Developments in Europe. (Mouton Textbook) / / ed. by Karsten Renckstorf, Denis McQuail, Judith E. Rosenbaum, Gabi Schaap.
The action theoretical approach has already proved its value as a framework for communication research, most especially in the study of media audiences and media use. It has deep roots in Weberian sociology, symbolic interactionism and phenomenology and it has been a robust survivor of the various s...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences 2000 - 2014 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Communications Monograph [CM] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Action theory and communication research: An
- introduction
- I Theory
- 2 Action theory as part of social science
- 3 With more hindsight: Conceptual problems and some
- ways forward for media use research
- 4 The ‘media use as social action’ approach:
- Theory, methodology, and research evidence so far
- 5 The foundation of communication and action in
- consciousness: Confronting action theory with systems theoretical
- arguments
- II Methods
- 6 Media communication and social interaction:
- Perspectives on action theory based reception research
- 7 Using protocol analysis in television news
- research: Proposal and first tests
- 8 Reconceptualizing media literacy
- 9 Elderly people’s media use in the context of
- personal meaning
- 10 ‘Para-social interaction’: Social interaction as
- a matter of fact?
- 11 Action theoretical approaches in organizational
- communication
- III Findings
- 12 Media use as an adaptation or coping tool in
- prison
- 13 Juxtaposing direct experience with media
- experience: Does reality really matter?
- 14 The home as a multimedia environment: Families’
- conception of space and the introduction of information and
- communication technologies in the home
- 15 Patterns in television news use
- 16 Do well-balanced exemplars in news stories
- provide food for thought?
- 17 Between altruism and narcissism: An action
- theoretical approach of personal homepages devoted to existential
- meaning
- 18 Ownership and use of ‘old’ and ‘new’ media among
- ethnic minority youth in The Netherlands. The role of the ethno-cultural
- position
- 19 The stereotypical portrayal of Germans and its
- effects on a Dutch audience
- 20 Occupational practices of Dutch journalists in a
- television newsroom
- Backmatter