Action Theory and Communication Research : : Recent Developments in Europe. (Mouton Textbook) / / ed. by Karsten Renckstorf, Denis McQuail, Judith E. Rosenbaum, Gabi Schaap.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences 2000 - 2014
• MitwirkendeR: Beentjes, Johannes W. J.,; Charlton, Michael,; Hermans, Liesbeth,; Hijmans, Ellen,; Huysmans, Frank,; Keppler, Angela,; Kokhuis, Madelon,; Konig, Ruben,; McQuail, Denis,; Nelissen, Paul,; Renckstorf, Karsten,; Roe, Keith,; Rosenbaum, Judith E.,; Schaap, Gabi,; Scheuch, Erwin K.,; Van Rompaey, Veerle,; Van den Bulck, Jan,; Vandebosch, Heidi,; Vettehen, Paul Hendriks,; Wester, Fred,; Westerik, Henk,; d’Haenens, Leen,; van Selm, Martine,; van Snippenburg, Leo,; van Summeren, Cindy,; van der Goot, Margot,
• HerausgeberIn: McQuail, Denis,; Renckstorf, Karsten,; Rosenbaum, Judith E.,; Schaap, Gabi,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Communications Monograph [CM] , 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

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...

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