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1 - Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Matthew Powers  and
Adrienne Russell
Edited by
Matthew Powers  and
Adrienne Russell
Matthew Powers
Affiliation:
University of Washington
Adrienne Russell
Affiliation:
University of Washington
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Summary

This chapter summarizes the book’s aim, which is to explore how scholars working at the intersections of journalism, politics, and activism make sense of and relate to some of the most pressing issues concerning contemporary developments in media and public life. Matthew Powers and Adrienne Russell describe recurrent questions that confront scholars of media and public life, and then summarize the core themes explored in the volume, which are living in a datafied world, journalism in times of change, media and problems of inclusion, engagement with and through media, and the role of scholars.

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dataficationjournalismmedia inclusionmedia engagementrole of scholarsmedia transformationspublic scholarship
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Rethinking Media Research for Changing Societies , pp. 1 - 24
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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