Introduction : The state of convergence in media and communication research / Klaus Bruhn Jensen -- The humanistic sources of media and communication research / Klaus Bruhn Jensen -- Media, culture, and modern times : social science investigations / Graham Murdock -- The production of entertainment media / Amanda D. Lotz and Horace Newcomb -- The study of news production / Stig Hjarvard -- Discursive realities / Kim Christian Schroøder -- Mediated fictions / Peter Larsen -- Media effects : quantitative traditions / Klaus Bruhn Jensen -- Media reception : qualitative traditions / Klaus Bruhn Jensen -- Communication in contexts : beyond mass-interpersonal and online-offline divides / Klaus Bruhn Jensen -- The cultural contexts of media and communication / Klaus Bruhn Jensen -- History, media, and communication / Paddy Scannell -- The quantitative research process / Barrie Gunter -- The qualitative research process / Klaus Bruhn Jensen -- The complementarity of qualitative and quantitative methodologies in media and communication research / Klaus Bruhn Jensen -- Audiences in the round : multi-method research in factual and reality television / Annette Hill -- The multi-grounded theory of parental mediation : exploring the complementarity of qualitative and quantitative communication research / Lynn Schofield Clark -- Personal media in everyday life : a baseline study / Rasmus Helles -- The social origins and uses of media and communication research / Klaus Bruhn Jensen.