Media Systems, Digital Media, and the Hybridity Cycle, with Prof. Daniel Hallin

Professor Daniel C. Hallin (communication.ucsd.edu/people/faculty-emeriti/…), Distinguished Professor of Communication at UC San Diego, shares his thoughts on media systems and how digital media relates to the concept. We discuss the components of a 'system' and current debates around the concept of 'hybridity' in media studies. This leads to a broader discussion of conceptual stretching, media capture, and how single case studies can be made comparative through dialogue with existing scholarship.

The recording took place while Prof. Hallin was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Communication and Media at Lund.

Here are the two articles we discuss in the episode:

Comparative Research, System Change, and the Complexity of Media Systems (2020) (google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&a…)
The Concept of Hybridity in Journalism Studies (2023) (journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/19401612…)