Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts

Knock, Knock. Who's There? The Imagined Audience

“…Speaking about audience in relation to the media industry, Hartley (2002) argued, ''the audience is a construction motivated by the paradigm in which it is imagined'' (p. 11). In a news production process account, Gans (2004) found that professional journalists often listed their supervisors as their imagined audience.…”

When facts, truth, and reality are God‐terms: on journalism's uneasy place in cultural studies

“…John Hartley's latest key concept reader, Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, included terms relevant to news such as "bias," "news values," "objectivity," and "gatekeeper," as did the updated version of O'Sullivan et al 70 Lacey used a text from the British program News At Ten to illustrate what he meant by institutional analysis in his key concept reader on media studies and visual tulture. 71 Pearson and Hartley offset journalism's neglect by both opening their volume, American Cultural Studies: A Reader, with a section of reprints of politically progressive journalistic articles as well as an academic article, included in a section titled Media, that specifically addressed journalism.…”

Convergence Of The Virtual And The Living Realities: A Constructivist Grounded Theory On University Students’ Self-Regulated Learning

“…By media the convergence is described as merging a mass communication flow through various digital platforms. Generally it is being studied in three contexts: ubiquitous technologies, online communication and virtual content (Hartley, 2012). Our findings showed that academic communication can enhance, reinforce and strengthen and otherwise facilitate the learning processes.…”