What is it about?
This is about doing ethnographic research into media organisations (such as the BBC) and cultural bodies (such as the UK Film Council), as well as how political communications were established around the Scottish Parliament. It takes a career-long view of this kind of engagement by the author.
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Why is it important?
It is a rare reflection on a series of studies of media and cultural bodies and scenes.
Perspectives
I hope readers will find this an interesting take on a field that has changed a lot since I first started media research but where there are also interesting continuities. I've aimed to bring out how hard it is to control the conditions under which you do research and, in particular, to underline how the context in the UK has changed for the worse, being driven by instrumental goals that deeply affect how researchers think of themselves and their work.
Professor Philip R. Schlesinger
University of Glasgow
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This page is a summary of: On the Vagaries of Production Research, January 2016, Nature,
DOI: 10.1057/9781137541949_2.
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