Attempts on Conceptualizing Cross-Border Journalism

Kurzfassung/Abstract

This chapter examines current attempts of conceptualizing cross-border journalism (CBJ). It asks which theoretical frameworks exist to conceptualize, structure, and analyze cross-border journalism. For this purpose, we provide a definition of cross-border journalism in the introduction. In section “Conceptualizing Cross-border Journalism,” we distinguish between approaches that are grounded in empirical research and normative demands of how cross-border journalism should be. We then present conceptualizations and categorizations of characteristics of cross-border journalism, followed by more elaborate approaches that offer analytical frameworks for research on cross-border journalism. A separate section is devoted to theories on cross-border journalism’s audiences, before we pose some critical questions in our concluding remarks.