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At the heart of this book is the question: how well do we understand the institutions which create our media, our information, and our culture? Rather than seeking to reveal the substantially hidden world of cultural production (as many works cited in this introductory chapter do well), this anthology explores many of the contemporary challenges to understanding the nature of cultural production—considering the research process, rather than research findings. By doing so, we hope to encourage researchers to push the boundaries of production research beyond the traditional (but still very necessary) ‘newsroom observation’ in order to expand production research across boundaries of genre and medium, to liberally borrow theory and method across previously rigid disciplinary borders, and to confront new challenges which threaten to insulate the creation of media and culture from rigorous independent examination.
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Paterson, C., Lee, D., Saha, A., Zoellner, A. (2016). Production Research: Continuity and Transformation. In: Paterson, C., Lee, D., Saha, A., Zoellner, A. (eds) Advancing Media Production Research. Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137541949_1
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