Researching Communications A Practical Guide to Methods in Media and Cultural Analysis

by Deacon, David; Pickering, Michael; Murdock, Graham; Golding, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781501316968
• ISBN10: 1501316966
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-06-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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

Written by highly regarded experts in the field, the new edition includes expanded and updated sections on social media, e-methods, comparative research, on-line data bases, international case studies and details of recent developments in media and communication studies.

Author Biography

David Deacon is Professor of Communication and Media Analysis in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK. He has written widely on theoretical and methodological issues relating to communication and media studies.

Michael Pickering is Professor of Media and Cultural Analysis in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. He is the co-editor of Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain (2013) and, with a grant funded by the Leverhulme Trust on media and memory, The Mnemonic Imagination (2012).

Peter Golding is Professor and Pro Vice Chancellor of Research & Innovation at Northumbria University, UK. He holds the post of Hon President of the Media Research Network of the European Sociological Association.

Graham Murdock is Professor of Culture and Economy in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK. Murdock has held the Leerstoel (Teaching Chair) at the Free University of Brussels, the Bonnier Chair at Stockholm University, served as Professor II at the University of Bergen, and held visiting professorships at a number of other universities including Auckland, California at San Diego, Curtin (Western Ausralia), Mexico City, and Helsinki.

Table of Contents

Preface to Third Edition
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Approaching Research
Chapter 2: Dealing with Documentation
Chapter 3: Selecting and Sampling
Chapter 4: Asking Questions
Chapter 5: Using Numbers
Chapter 6: Counting Contents
Chapter 7: Analysing Texts
Chapter 8: Unpacking News
Chapter 9: Viewing the Image
Chapter 10: Interpreting the Images
Chapter 11: Being an Observer
Chapter 12: Attending to Talk
Chapter 13: Taking Talk Apart
Chapter 14: Comparative Research
Chapter 15: Using Computers
Chapter 16: Beyond Methodology
Glossary
Bibliography
Index