Abstract
As of now, media scholars have a rather limited shared vocabulary to describe exactly what it is they are studying about media or about a particular medium. This situation is not necessarily a serious problem for the scores of fields and research traditions whose concepts and vocabularies are brought to bear on media research questions, but it is a glaring problem for media studies because, even apart from other differences, we have no common understanding of what the subject matter of the field is.
Dieser Beitrag wurde erstmals veröffentlicht in: Journal of Communication, 43 (1993)/3, S. 55-66. By Permission of Oxford University Press.
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Meyrowitz, J. (1996). Images of Media: Hidden Ferment — and Harmony — in the Field. In: Ludes, P. (eds) Informationskontexte für Massenmedien. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-95654-5_3
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