Pt. 1. History: sources of media and communication research
Humanities in media and communication research / Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Media, culture and modern times: social science investigations / Graham Murdock
Pt. 2. Systematics: processes of mediated communication
Media organizations
Production of media fiction / Horace Newcomb, Amanda Lotz
Production of news / Gaye Tuchman
Study of international news / Stig Hjarvard
Media texts
Discourses of fact / Kim Christian Schrøder
Mediated fiction / Peter Larsen
Media audiences
Media effects: quantitative traditions / Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Media reception: qualitative traditions / Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Media contexts
Contexts, cultures and computers: the cultural contexts of mediated communication / Klaus Bruhn Jensen
History, media and communication / Paddy Scannell
Pt. 3. Practice: scientific approaches and social applications
Quantitative research process / Barrie Gunter
Qualitiative research process / Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Complementarity of qualitative and quantitative methodologies in media and communication research / Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Social origins and uses of media and communication research / Klaus Bruhn Jensen