Autoren:	Voci, Denise Karmasin, Matthias Nölleke-Przybylski, Pamela Altmeppen, Klaus-Dieter Möller, Johanna Rimscha, Bjørn von
Titel:	What is a media company today? : Rethinking theoretical and empirical definitions
Online-Publikationsdatum:	29-Mär-2019
Erscheinungsdatum:	2019
Sprache des Dokuments:	Englisch
Zusammenfassung/Abstract:	Every day, media managers face different challenges in a constantly changing global economic, cultural and technological setting (Hollifield, Leblanc Wicks, Sylvie, & Lowrey, 2016, p. 110, 177; Albarran, 2013; Shaver & Shaver, 2008; Hollifield, 2001). Between all these challenges, questions on what a media company is today, how it might be defined and the kinds of features characterizing it often remain unanswered. These questions are rarely addressed by authors and scholars working in both business economics, journalism, media, and communication science, maybe because there is the existing assumption of a self-evident and generally accepted definition of the term “media company” (as argued by Sjurts, 2004, p. 390) which actually does not exist. The aim of this paper is therefore to offer an overview of the existing theoretical approaches used to define “media companies,” to identify possible shortcomings of each definitional approach and, deduced from there, to suggest a theoretically sound and empirically applicable approach, which takes into account the challenges and needs of the actual media landscape.
DDC-Sachgruppe:	300 Sozialwissenschaften 300 Social sciences
Veröffentlichende Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Organisationseinheit:	FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport
Veröffentlichungsort:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-766
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hebis:77-publ-590239
Version:	Published version
Publikationstyp:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Nutzungsrechte:	CC BY-NC-ND
Informationen zu den Nutzungsrechten:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Zeitschrift:	Studies in communication, Media 8 1
Seitenzahl oder Artikelnummer:	29 52
Verlag:	Nomos
Verlagsort:	Baden-Baden
Erscheinungsdatum:	2019
ISSN:	2192-4007
URL der Originalveröffentlichung:	http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-2019-1-29
DOI der Originalveröffentlichung:	10.5771/2192-4007-2019-1-29
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