On the Challenges of Cross-National Comparative Media Research

European Journal of Communication

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 477-500

  Livingstone, Sonia ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparative models; Cross national comparison; Globalization; Media cultures; Methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345358434     PISSN: 02673231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267323103184003     Document Type: Review

References (43)

1. Alasuutari, P. (1995) Researching Culture: Qualitative Method and Cultural Studies. London: Sage.
2. Allen, R.C. (ed.) (1995) To Be Continued . . .: Soap Operas around the World. London: Routledge.
3. Appadurai, A. (1996) Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
4. Beniger, J.R. (1992) 'Comparison, Yes, But - The Case of Technological and Cultural Change', pp. 35-50 in J.G. Blumler, J.M. McLeod and K.E. Rosengren (eds) Comparatively Speaking: Communication and Culture across Space and Time. London: Sage.
5. Blumler, J.G., J.M. McLeod and K.E. Rosengren (1992) 'An Introduction to Comparative Communication Research', pp. 3-18 in J.G. Blumler, J.M. McLeod and K.E. Rosengren (eds) Comparatively Speaking: Communication and Culture across Space and Time. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
6. Bohman, J. (1991) New Philosophy of Social Science: Problems of Indeterminacy. Cambridge: Polity Press.
7. Chisholm, L. (1995) 'European Youth Research: Tour de Force or Turmbau zu Babel?', in L. Chisholm, P. Buchner, H.-H. Kruger and M. Bois-Reymond (eds) Growing Up in Europe: Contemporary Horizons in Childhood and Youth Studies. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
8. Clifford, J. (1997) Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
9. Clifford, J. and C.E. Marcus (eds) (1986) Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press.
10. Cohen, A.A., H. Adoni and C.R. Bantz (1990) Social Conflict and Television News. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
11. Coleman, J.A. and B. Rollet (eds) (1997) Television in Europe. Exeter: Intellect.
12. Couldry, N. (2000) Inside Culture: Re-Imagining the Method of Cultural Studies. London: Sage.
13. Dahlström, E. (1989) 'Theories and Ideologies of Family Functions, Gender Relations and Human Reproduction', pp. 74-91 in K. Boh, M. Bak, C. Clason, M. Pankratova, J. Qvortrup, G.B. Sgritta and K. Waerness (eds) Changing Patterns of European Family Life. London: Routledge.
14. Edelstein, A.S. (1982) Comparative Communication Research. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
15. Haddon, L. (1998) Locating the Virtual Community in the Households of Europe; (1) The International Report; (2) Methodological Observations, Reports for NCR Financial Services, December. London: NCR.
16. Hammersley, M. and P. Atkinson (1983) Ethnography: Principles in Practice. London: Tavistock.
17. Hochschild, A.R. (1983) The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, Berkeley: University of California Press.
18. Hofstede, G. (1998) 'A Case for Comparing Apples with Oranges: International Differences in Values', pp. 16-31 in M. Sasaki (ed.) Values and Attitudes across Nations and Time. Leiden: Brill.
19. Jensen, K.B. (ed.) (1998) News of the World: World Cultures Look at Television News. London: Routledge.
20. Kohn, M.L. (1989) 'Introduction', in M.L. Kohn (ed.) Cross-National Research in Sociology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
21. Lazarsfeld, P.F. (1941) 'Remarks on Administrative and Critical Communications Research', Studies in Philosophy and Science 9: 3-16.
22. Liebes, T. and E. Katz (1990) The Export of Meaning; Cross-Cultural Readings of 'Dallas'. New York: Oxford University Press.
23. Livingstone, S. (1998) 'Mediated Childhoods: A Comparative Approach to the Lifeworld of Young People in a Changing Media Environment', European Journal of Communication 13(4): 435-56.
24. Livingstone, S. and M. Bovill (eds) (2001) Children and their Changing Media Environment: A European Comparative Study. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
25. Livingstone, S. and D. Lemish (2001) 'Doing Comparative Research with Children and Young People', pp. 31-50 in S. Livingstone and M. Bovill (eds) Children and their Changing Media Environment: A European Comparative Study. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
26. McNeill, P. (1985) Research Methods. London: Tavistock.
27. Morley, D. and K. Robins (1995) Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries. London: Routledge.
28. Morrow, R.A. and D.D. Brown (1994) Critical Theory and Methodology, Vol. 3. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
29. O'Donnell, H. (1999) Good Times, Bad Times: Soap Operas and Society in Western Europe. Leicester: Leicester University Press.
30. Øyen, E. (1990) 'The Imperfection of Comparisons', pp. 1-18 in E. Øyen (ed.) Comparative Methodology: Theory and Practice in International Social Research. London: Sage.
31. Peschar, J. (1984) 'Recent Developments in Comparative Research on Social Structure and Stratification', pp. 3-12 in M. Nissans, J. Peschar and C. Kourilsky (eds) International Comparative Research: Social Structures and Public Institutions in Eastern and Western Europe. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
32. Radway, J. (1988) 'Reception Study: Ethnography and the Problems of Dispersed Audiences and Nomadic Subjects', Cultural Studies 2(3): 359-76.
33. Rogers, E.M. (1995) Diffusion of Innovations, Vol. 4. New York: Free Press.
34. Sarana, G. (1975) The Methodology of Anthropological Comparisons: An Analysis of Comparative Methods in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
35. Silj, A. (1988) East of Dallas: The European Challenge to American Television. London: BFI.
36. Sreberny-Mohammadi, A., K. Nordenstreng, R. Stevenson and F. Ugboajah (1985) Foreign News in the Media: International Reporting in 29 Countries. Paris: UNESCO.
37. Steier, F. (1991) 'Reflexivity and Methodology', pp. 163-85 in F. Steier (ed.) Research and Reflexivity. London: Sage.
38. Swanson, D. (1992) 'Managing Theoretical Diversity in Cross-National Studies of Political Communication', pp. 19-34 in J.G. Blumler, J.M. McLeod and K.E. Rosengren (eds) Comparatively Speaking: Communication and Culture across Space and Time. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
39. Szalai, A. and R. Petrella (eds) (1977) Cross-National Comparative Survey Research: Theory and Practice. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
40. Teune, H. (1990) 'Comparing Countries: Lessons Learned', pp. 38-62 in E. Ø yen (ed.) Comparative Methodology: Theory and Practice in International Social Research. London: Sage.
41. Tomlinson, J. (1999) Globalisation and Culture. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
42. Wasko, J., M. Phillips and E.R. Meehan (eds) (2001) Dazzled by Disney? The Global Disney Audiences Project. Leicester: Leicester University Press.
43. Wieten, J., G. Murdock and P. Dahlgren (eds) (2000) Television across Europe: A Comparative Introduction. London: Sage.