My goal in this paper is to offer some provisional thoughts on the SSRC's effort to build a “culture of collaboration” between academic researchers and the media reform/media justice communities. Broadly speaking, our program tried to make the field better at producing and utilizing research...

Mass media are defind as media which have their proper program and constitute their own audience. Mass media research, accordingly, deals with the production of programs and the consumption of the audience. For both perspectives, research topics are justified, data sources are introduced, and...