27 Media management scholarship and research: Emergence and trends of the discipline in Africa
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Johanna Mavhungu
Abstract
This chapter discusses the emergence of media management in Africa and South Africa specifically from the point of view of a researcher and scholar whose work has contributed to the generation of locally-based case studies on media management. The paper discusses scholarly influences on the development of media management in Africa. In addition, it explores the work of scholars in journalism studies, sociology and anthropology of media, who write about some of the complexities of contextuality when it comes to the application of Western scholarship in journalism studies and how this has also shaped media management studies as a field that emerged and developed primarily in a journalism school in Africa. Furthermore, the chapter draws comparisons from literature about the challenges experienced during the development of media management in the Global North.
Abstract
This chapter discusses the emergence of media management in Africa and South Africa specifically from the point of view of a researcher and scholar whose work has contributed to the generation of locally-based case studies on media management. The paper discusses scholarly influences on the development of media management in Africa. In addition, it explores the work of scholars in journalism studies, sociology and anthropology of media, who write about some of the complexities of contextuality when it comes to the application of Western scholarship in journalism studies and how this has also shaped media management studies as a field that emerged and developed primarily in a journalism school in Africa. Furthermore, the chapter draws comparisons from literature about the challenges experienced during the development of media management in the Global North.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series V
- Contents IX
- 1 Management and economics of media and communication – History and definition of the field 1
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Section I – Theories
- 2 Industrial organization of media markets and competition policy 21
- 3 Approaches from strategic management: Resource-based view, knowledge-based view, and dynamic capability view 47
- 4 (New) Institutional media economics 69
- 5 Political economy 87
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Section II – Methods
- 6 Quantitative methods 109
- 7 Qualitative methods in media management research 129
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Section III – Key issues
- 8 Convergence 151
- 9 Content platforms 169
- 10 Media concentration 187
- 11 (Re)defining public service media from an economic perspective: Damned if they do, damned if they don’t 203
- 12 Innovation & creativity: Media as business and commons 223
- 13 Labour and risk in the media industries: Individual and organisational perspectives 241
- 14 Media and the economic cycle 261
- 15 Designing marketing models for media products 281
- 16 Branding: Media brands and brands as media 311
- 17 Transnational media and their management 333
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Section IV – Regional perspectives and peculiarities
- 18 North America 355
- 19 Latin America 365
- 20 Media management and economics research in Northern Europe 375
- 21 Southern Europe 393
- 22 Central and Eastern Europe 405
- 23 East Asia 417
- 24 Media management and economics research in China 427
- 25 Media economics in India: Traversing the Rubicon? 441
- 26 Australia and New Zealand 457
- 27 Media management scholarship and research: Emergence and trends of the discipline in Africa 469
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Section V – Future
- 28 New media and the need for new analytical frameworks: Dual challenges to media economics and policy analysis 485
- Contributors 497
- Index 505
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series V
- Contents IX
- 1 Management and economics of media and communication – History and definition of the field 1
-
Section I – Theories
- 2 Industrial organization of media markets and competition policy 21
- 3 Approaches from strategic management: Resource-based view, knowledge-based view, and dynamic capability view 47
- 4 (New) Institutional media economics 69
- 5 Political economy 87
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Section II – Methods
- 6 Quantitative methods 109
- 7 Qualitative methods in media management research 129
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Section III – Key issues
- 8 Convergence 151
- 9 Content platforms 169
- 10 Media concentration 187
- 11 (Re)defining public service media from an economic perspective: Damned if they do, damned if they don’t 203
- 12 Innovation & creativity: Media as business and commons 223
- 13 Labour and risk in the media industries: Individual and organisational perspectives 241
- 14 Media and the economic cycle 261
- 15 Designing marketing models for media products 281
- 16 Branding: Media brands and brands as media 311
- 17 Transnational media and their management 333
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Section IV – Regional perspectives and peculiarities
- 18 North America 355
- 19 Latin America 365
- 20 Media management and economics research in Northern Europe 375
- 21 Southern Europe 393
- 22 Central and Eastern Europe 405
- 23 East Asia 417
- 24 Media management and economics research in China 427
- 25 Media economics in India: Traversing the Rubicon? 441
- 26 Australia and New Zealand 457
- 27 Media management scholarship and research: Emergence and trends of the discipline in Africa 469
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Section V – Future
- 28 New media and the need for new analytical frameworks: Dual challenges to media economics and policy analysis 485
- Contributors 497
- Index 505
