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Advancing Comparative Media and Communication Research

Comparative communication research is vitally important in an age of media globalisation. This edited collection provides a major contribution to the field, extending it to a transnational level and to the age of mobile media and big data.

Terry Flew, Professor of Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology

This anthology gains its tremendous potency and relevance in responding to the urgent and mushrooming interest in comparative communication studies under the aegis of ever-increasing dialogues between different civilizations. The choice of cutting-edge topics and contributors from both the West and the Rest would guarantee its adaptability into different classroom and scholastic contexts, thereby opening up a truly global horizon for media and communication pedagogy and research.

SHI, Anbin, Ministry of Educations Changjiang Endowment Professor of Global Media and Communication, Tsinghua University, China

A comparative approach to media and communication research plays an important, if not indispensable, role in achieving a core mission of researchers: to delimit the generality and specificity of media and communication theories, enabling researchers to more readily identify the influence of social, political, and cultural contexts in shaping media and communication phenomena. To dewesternize and internationalize media and communication studies has thus become the way forward for overcoming the parochialism of mainstream media and communication studies. This volume reflects on what comparative media and communication research has achieved or failed to achieve, the epistemological and theoretical challenges it is facing, and the new directions in which it should be heading.

Joseph M. Chan is Research and Emeritus Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Francis L.F. Lee is Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
Edited by Daya Thussu, University of Westminster

For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com.

13 Modernization, Nation-Building, and Television History
Edited by Stewart Anderson and Melissa Chakars

14 Media Across Borders
Localizing TV, Film and Video Games
Edited by Andrea Esser, Miguel . Bernal-Merino and Iain Robert Smith

15 Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture
Emerging Phenomena, Enduring Concepts
Edited by Sun Sun Lim and Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano

16 Digital Politics and Culture in Contemporary India
The Making of an Info-Nation
Biswarup Sen

17 European Media Policy for the Twenty-First Century
Assessing the Past, Setting Agendas for the Future
Edited by Seamus Simpson, Manuel Puppis, and Hilde Van den Bulck

18 Everyday Media Culture in Africa
Audiences and Users
Edited by Wendy Willems and Winston Mano

19 Children and Media in India
Narratives of Class, Agency and Social Change
Shakuntala Banaji

20 Advancing Comparative Media and Communication Research
Edited by Joseph M. Chan and Francis L.F. Lee

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ISBN: 978-1-138-89599-7 (hbk)
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The book began with an international conference to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2015. We thought of a variety of themes for the conference and we decided on this one in the end: Comparative Communication Research: Reviews, Showcases and Theoretical Advancements. On the one hand, we genuinely believed that it was the right time for us to take stock of comparative communication research and promote it. On the other hand, it perfectly rhymed with the mission of the conference hostthe Centre for Chinese Media and Comparative Communication Research (The C-Centre).

This volume is mainly a collection of selected papers presented at the conference. We are thankful to all the distinguished presenters and discussants and we are most grateful to the contributors of this volume for their cooperation and enthusiasm in getting the chapters ready. We also owe thanks to the two anonymous reviewers of the manuscript for their useful comments. We want to thank particularly Prof. Daya Thussu, the editor of the Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies, for his encouraging remarks and efficient processing of the manuscript.

We would like to express our gratitude towards our cosponsors, too. The conference would not have been possible had it not been for their financial contribution. These include the Faculty of Social Science and Chung Chi College at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. We are grateful to Miss Mandy Chan, C-Centres Executive Officer, other colleagues, and graduate students for their help in coordinating the conference. We want to thank all the professors in our School, especially Anthony Fung, Christine Huang, Louis Leung, Jack Qiu, and Saskia Wittleborn, for their input and support in bringing the conference into reality. Last but not least, we are indebted to Dr Zhifei Mao, a post-doc at the C-Centre, for her effective editorial assistance and coauthoring a chapter.

Joseph M. Chan
Francis L.F. Lee

Joseph M. Chan and Francis L. F. Lee

This introduction seeks to explain why a comparative communication perspective is essential for the advancement of communication studies. For this, we will take account of the advantages of comparative communication research in meeting the central epistemological requirements in research, overcoming parochialism in mainstream communication studies, and satisfying a surging interest among scholars as the world goes digitized and globalized. Finally, we will review how this volume and each chapter contribute to our understanding of comparative communication research and the debates over some of the methodological and theoretical issues it is facing.

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