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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.
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.
Preface to Third EditionAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Approaching ResearchChapter 2: Dealing with DocumentationChapter 3: Selecting and SamplingChapter 4: Asking QuestionsChapter 5: Using NumbersChapter 6: Counting ContentsChapter 7: Analysing TextsChapter 8: Unpacking NewsChapter 9: Viewing the ImageChapter 10: Interpreting the ImagesChapter 11: Being an ObserverChapter 12: Attending to TalkChapter 13: Taking Talk ApartChapter 14: Comparative ResearchChapter 15: Using ComputersChapter 16: Beyond MethodologyGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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