A world-systemic analysis of knowledge production in international communication and media studies: the epistemic hierarchy of research approaches

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Marton Demeter ◽  
Manuel Goyanes
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Systemic Analysis ◽  
Analysis Of Knowledge

scholarly journals Power, Knowledge, and Epistemic Delinking

2017 ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Aneta Stojnić
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Epistemic Violence ◽  
Central Argument

In this paper I shall argue that radical epistemic delinking has a key role in liberation from the Colonial Matrix of Power as well as the change in the existing global power relations which are based in the colonialism and maintained through exploitation, expropriation and construction of the (racial) Other. Those power relations render certain bodies and spaces as (epistemologically) irrelevant. In order to discuss possible models of struggle against such condition, firstly I have addressed the relation between de-colonial theories and postcolonial studies, arguing that decolonial positions are both historicising and re-politicising the postcolonial theory. In my central argument I have focused on the epistemic delinking and political implications of decolonial turn. With reference to Grada Killomba I have argued for the struggle against epistemic violence through decolonising knowledge. Decolonising knowledge requires delinking form Eurocentric model of knowledge production and radical dismantling the existing hierarchies among different knowledge. It requires recognition of the ‘Other epistemologies’ and ‘Other knowledge’ as well as liberation from Western disciplinary and methodological limitations. One of the main goals of decolonial project is deinking from the Colonial Matrix of Power. However, delinking is not required only in the areas of economy and politics but also in the field of epistemology. Article received: June 15, 2017; Article accepted: June 26, 2017; Published online: October 15, 2017; Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Stojnić, Aneta. "Power, Knowledge, and Epistemic Delinking." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 14 (2017): 105-111. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i14.218

scholarly journals Comparing research topics in European and International Communication Association journals: Computational analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 174804852092833
Author(s):  
Oren Soffer ◽  
Dorit Geifman
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Computational Analysis ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Media Change ◽  
Media Logic ◽  
Research Stream ◽  
European Group

This study uses diachronic computational analysis enhanced with a qualitative approach to examine ongoing changes in communication studies, comparing trends in two European media studies journals and three major International Communication Association journals. We analyze the titles, keywords, and abstracts of 2,585 articles published between 1994–2007 and 2008–2016. We find differences between topics in the two periods in each of the journals’ groups and between the two groups themselves. In the European group, we find centrality of topics related to media change and media logic. In the ICA journals, we find a strengthening of scholarly engagement with effects studies. At the same time, we find evidence of erosion of the place of cultural studies as a distinctive research stream.

scholarly journals Portuguese nursing: analysis of knowledge production and dissemination through institutional repositories

2015 ◽  
Vol IV Série (Nº 6) ◽  
pp. 35-43
Author(s):  
Leonel Preto ◽  
Matilde Martins ◽  
Manuel Brás ◽  
Maria Pimentel ◽  
Cayetano Fernández-Sola
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Analysis Of Knowledge

scholarly journals DATA INQUIRY: METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON DATAFICATION IN SOCIAL RESEARCH

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Zakharova
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Expert Interviews ◽  
Data Format ◽  
Critical Data ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Data Inquiry

Datafication is widely acknowledged as a process “transforming all things under the sun into a data format” (van Dijck, 2017, p. 11). As data become both objects and instruments of social science, many scholars call for attention to the ways datafication reconfigures scholarly knowledge production, its methodological opportunities, and challenges (Lomborg et al., 2020). This contribution offers a reflection on the interdependence between methodological approaches taken to study datafication and concepts about it, that these approaches provide within the domains of critical data studies and media studies. Expanding on the concept of methods' performativity (Barad, 2007), I apply the notion of methods assemblages: “a continuing process of crafting and enacting necessary boundaries [and relations]" between researchers and all relevant matters (Law, 2004: 144). The key question in the presented study is what kinds of methods assemblages are being applied in current datafication research and what concepts of datafication they produce. 32 expert interviews were conducted with scholars who published empirical work on dataficaiton between 2015 and 2020. Three methods assemblages were developed. Central to distinguishing between methods assemblages are the ways of associating of the involved actors and things. In my analysis the questions of (1) what we are talking about when talking about datafication and (2) kinds of knowledges that researchers were interested in producing can be understood as such ways of associating. The methods assemblages contribute to critical data studies by producing accounts about datafication processes that are in concert with the methods assemblages applied to study these.

scholarly journals Transsexuality and education: analysis of knowledge production in education periodic of capes (2012-2016)

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 18537-18551
Author(s):  
Madson de Santana Santos ◽  
Alfrancio Ferreira Dias ◽  
Ivanderson Pereira Silva ◽  
Pedro Paulo Souza Rios ◽  
Anselmo Lima Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Analysis Of Knowledge

scholarly journals Teorier om fred og harmoni: viden, magt og kontroversen om Kinas opstigning

Politik ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Marcus Kristensen ◽  
Ras Tind Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Sociology Of Science ◽  
Peaceful Rise ◽  
Separate Spheres ◽  
Policy Ideas ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Science And Politics ◽  
Chinese School ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Analysis Of Knowledge

This article maps the emergence and development of Chinese discourses about China’s rise in international politics. It examines how the production of knowledge, particularly theories on international relations and grand strategy, develop in their travels between the scienti c and political as well as the international and national. Taking its point of departure in the sociology of science, the article sets out to understand the interplay between social, political, and intellectual conditions for knowledge production in today’s Interna- tional Relations (IR) research in China. Contrary to the conventional notion that Chinese social science is determined by political preferences, the paper argues 1) that the ideal of (pure) science and (dirty) politics as two separate spheres is di cult to sustain in the empirical analysis of knowledge production (in China and elsewhere) and 2) that more often than not important policy ideas and theories, such ‘Peaceful Rise’, the ‘Chinese School’ or ‘Harmonious World’ have emerged from a productive relationship between science and politics. e analysis of Chinese IR discourse shows that Chinese scholars and experts might play a more in uential role in the formulation of foreign policy concepts than usually assumed. 

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