ABSTRACT

This volume offers new perspectives on knowledge production through various forms of togetherness. Via diverse cases of collaboration in media studies, from methodological contemplations to on‑the‑field social practices, the book proposes reflections and inquiries around collective research, media, and action.

The collection rethinks how scholarly endeavours feature different ways of doing and being together, identifying new and more diverse communicative spaces, challenging dichotomies, and encouraging critical perspectives. Scholars of a variety of disciplines recontextualise collaboration beyond the very nature of conventional academic approaches, to embrace vast connotations of media studies – from actions building connections across research and practice to transdisciplinary methodologies through analogue and digital realms.

This book will be an invaluable resource for scholars and post‑graduate students from various fields of media studies, who carry an interest in collaborative and collective aspects of media as practice and research, as well as those in a variety of social science disciplines, participatory action research, media sociology, audience studies, intercultural communication, qualitative research methods, and participatory communication.

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction

Doing and being together

part I|72 pages

Doing research together

chapter 2|10 pages

Women's radio history in Turkey

The politics of reflecting together in oral history research

chapter 3|17 pages

The artist's book

Working towards a collaborative methodology in art and design

part II|54 pages

Doing media together

chapter 7|13 pages

Human rights-based narratives of war

A journalistic tool for promoting human rights 1

chapter 9|12 pages

‘Alone together’

Reconnecting death stranding's broken sense of sociality

part III|78 pages

Acting together

chapter 11|13 pages

From a political protest to an art exhibition

Collaboration and dialogue through artistic research

chapter 12|13 pages

Resonance in intercultural encounters

Mapping a critical perspective on communication in pluralised societies

chapter 13|17 pages

Acting together, reflecting together

Two ethnographic accounts of Jamaica's first ‘pride event’ in 2015

chapter 15|17 pages

Transmedia charity initiatives in Turkey

The case of Adım Adım