Advancing Comparative Media and Communication Research

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.

Introduction

Joseph M. Chan & Francis L. F. Lee



1. Mapping Comparative Communication Research: What the Literature Reveals

Clement Y. K. So



2. Can We Compare Media Systems?

Colin Sparks



3. Mapping Comparative Research on Television Foreign News

Akiba Cohen



4. The Unbearable Lightness of Communication for Development and Social Change

Jan Servaes



5. Comparative Guanxi Research Following the Commensurability/Incommensurability (C/I) Model

Georgette Wang and Christine Y. H. Huang



6. Beyond Positivism of Big Data Analysis – Towards Discursive Geographies and The ‘Reflexive’ Interdependence of Communicative Relations

Ingrid Volkmer



7. Thinking Through the City: A Comparative, Ecological And Globally-Oriented Approach

Myria Georgiou



8. Broadening Conceptions of Mobile and its Social Dynamics

William H. Dutton, Frank Hangler, and Ginette Law



9. The Global-Local Communication Synchronization: China’s Response to the SARS Outbreak and the Air Pollution Crisis

Joseph M. Chan and Zhifei Mao



10. Domestication of Foreign News Considered Comparatively: Variable Applications and Relationships with Audience Interests

Francis L.F. Lee



11. Cultural Capital and Affect at Work: A Case Study of the Korean and Chinese TV Drama Meteor Shower



Anthony Fung and Keysook Choe



12. Research Network and Comparative Communication Studies: Practice and Reflections

Joseph M. Chan