Handbook of Media and Communications Research : Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodologies,9780415225885

Handbook of Media and Communications Research : Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodologies

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ISBN13: 9780415225885
ISBN10: 0415225884
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-05-10
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

TheHandbook of Media and Communication Researchpresents qualitative as well as quantitative approaches to the analysis and interpretation of media, covering perspectives from both the social sciences and the humanities. TheHandbookoffers a comprehensive review of earlier research and a set of guidelines for how to think about, plan, and carry out studies of media in different social and cultural contexts. Divided into sections on the history, systematics and pragmatics of research, and written by internationally acknowledged specialists in each area, theHandbookwill be a standard reference work for students and researchers in the field of media, communication and cultural studies.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
vii
Notes on contributors ix
Preface xi
Introduction: the state of convergence in media and communication research
1(14)
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
PART 1 HISTORY: SOURCES OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION RESEARCH
The humanities in media and communication research
15(25)
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Media, culture and modern times: social science investigations
40(22)
Graham Murdock
PART 2 SYSTEMATICS: PROCESSES OF MEDIATED COMMUNICATION
Media organizations
The production of media fiction
62(16)
Horace Newcomb
Amanda Lotz
The production of news
78(13)
Gaye Tuchman
The study of international news
91(7)
Stig Hjarvard
Media texts
Discourses of fact
98(19)
Kim Christian Schroder
Mediated fiction
117(21)
Peter Larsen
Media audiences
Media effects: quantitative traditions
138(18)
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Media reception: qualitative traditions
156(15)
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Media contexts
Contexts, cultures and computers: the cultural contexts of mediated communication
171(20)
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
History, media and communication
191(18)
Paddy Scannell
PART 3 PRACTICE: SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES AND SOCIAL APPLICATIONS
The quantitative research process
209(26)
Barrie Gunter
The qualitative research process
235(19)
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
The complementarity of qualitative and quantitative methodologies in media and communication research
254(19)
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
The social origins and uses of media and communication research
273(21)
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
References 294(32)
Index 326

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