I am pleased to share that our chapter, “Beyond Borders: The Imperative of Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Research in Media and Journalism,” will be published in the edited volume The Routledge Companion to Global Journalism and Media at the Borders, forthcoming with Routledge / Taylor & Francis.

The book, edited by Celeste González de Bustamante, Jeannine E. Relly, Ammina Kothari, and Jyotika Ramaprasad, brings together contributions from scholars across different academic and geographical contexts to address critical questions about journalism, media, borders, (de)globalisation, transnationalism, and the relationship between the Global South and the Majority World.

Our chapter, written with Javier J. Amores, Patricia Sánchez-Holgado, Maximiliano Frías Vázquez, and Carlos Arcila Calderón, is included in the section “Expanding the Boundaries of Methodologies and Approaches.” In it, we argue for moving beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries in media and journalism studies by advancing more collaborative, interdisciplinary, and methodologically open forms of research.

The starting point is clear: contemporary problems in the media ecosystem—disinformation, polarisation, inequality, hate speech, professional precarity, technological transformation, artificial intelligence, and crises of trust—cannot be fully understood through isolated approaches. They require analytical frameworks that can connect theories, methods, data, contexts, and diverse research teams.

In this sense, the chapter proposes thinking about journalism and communication beyond conventional borders: borders between disciplines, methodologies, regions, academic languages, media systems, and dominant and peripheral forms of knowledge production.

Being part of this volume is especially meaningful because the book contributes to a central conversation for the present and future of journalism studies: how to study media in a world shaped by visible and invisible, material and symbolic, geographical and epistemological borders.

Routledge has announced the volume as forthcoming, with publication expected in November 2026.

Chapter:
“Beyond Borders: The Imperative of Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Research in Media and Journalism”
Javier J. Amores, Martín Oller Alonso, Patricia Sánchez-Holgado, Maximiliano Frías Vázquez & Carlos Arcila Calderón

Book:
The Routledge Companion to Global Journalism and Media at the Borders
Edited by Celeste González de Bustamante, Jeannine E. Relly, Ammina Kothari & Jyotika Ramaprasad
Routledge, 2026