Five decades of local media theory: Responding to globally changing media and communication systems
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Media theories are best understood backwards, even if they must be articulated forwards. Media theories have continuously responded to practice – to historically changing technologies and institutions of communication – in shifting local and global research environments. This article addresses the understanding of media prevailing in Danish media and communication research at two pivotal moments –1981 and 1996 – adding a diagnosis of 2026 and a prognosis for coming generations of colleagues to better understand media and theories when looking backwards to the 2020s.
Authors: Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Mikkel Bækby Johansen
Institution: University of Copenhagen
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7147524676
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