Media research techniques:
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Main Author: Berger, Arthur Asa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks Sage Publications c1998
Edition:2nd ed
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-168) and indexes
Guided research projects -- Research logs -- Content analysis: newspaper comics pages -- Survey interviews: media utilization -- Social roles: television soap opera characters -- Depth interviews: favorite singers and records -- Rhetorical analysis: magazine advertisments -- Library research: audiences of radio talk shows -- Focus groups: reasons for attending films -- Experiments: humor -- Participant observation: video game players -- Historical research: images of shopping malls in the popular press -- Comparative analysis: images of Disneyland (and Disney World) in the American popular and scholarly press -- Writing with style -- Avoiding common writing errors -- Avoiding common reasoning errors -- Writing a research report -- References -- Name index -- Subject index -- About the author
With new chapters on experimentation, historical research comparative research and participant observation, this second edition of Media Research Techniques will enable beginners to plan and implement research in communications studies
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 175 p.)
ISBN:0761915362
0761915370
1452251266
9780761915362
9780761915379
9781452251264

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