David Deacon, Michael Pickering, Peter Golding, Graham Murdock

Researching Communications (eBook, PDF)

A Practical Guide to Methods in Media and Cultural Analysis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The new edition of the highly respected Researching Communications is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to researching media and communication. Researching Communications, Third Edition is an invaluable guide to performing and analysing research tasks, introducing the major research methods, giving detailed examples of research analysis and practical step-by-step guidance in clear language.

Written by highly regarded experts in the field, the third edition includes new sections on social media analysis, digital research methods and comparative research, as well as updated case studies, international examples and details of recent developments in media and communication studies.

Undergraduate and postgraduate media and communication students will find Researching Communications an invaluable resource at all stages of their course.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501316937
• Artikelnr.: 61610083

Autorenporträt

David Deacon is Professor of Communication and Media Analysis at Loughborough University, UK. He has published widely on journalism, political communication, communication theory and media history. His other books include The British News Media and the Spanish Civil War: Tomorrow May Be Too Late and Mediating Social Science (2008, with Natalie Fenton and Alan Bryman).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the
Third Edition Acknowledgements 1. Approaching research 2. Dealing with
documentation 3. Selecting and sampling 4. Asking questions 5. Handling
numbers 6. Counting contents 7. Analysing texts 8. Unpacking news 9.
Viewing the image 10. Interpreting images 11. Being an observer 12.
Attending to talk 13. Taking talk apart 14. Making comparisons 15. Using
computers 16. Beyond methodology: the what, how and why of researching
communications Glossary Bibliography Index