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Researching Communications, Second Edition: A Practical Guide to Methods in Media and Cultural Analysis
David Deacon,Michael Pickering,Peter Golding,Graham Murdock

Paperback
RRP: £21.99
ISBN: 9780340926994
ISBN-10: 0340926996

Published: 27/07/2007
Extent: 440 pages
Illustrations: 40

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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 detailed examples of research analysis and practical step-by-step guidance in clear language, Researching Communications, Second 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 the Internet, on-line databases and the latest CAQDAS packages, as well as new case studies, international examples and details of recent developments in media and communication studies. Undergraduate and postgraduate media and communication studies students will find Researching Communications an invaluable resource at all stages of their course.

  • Lucid and clear explanations

  • Updated with developments on the Internet as a research tool and as a subject of research in itself

  • Comprehensive and authoritative guide

  • Covers the latest computer software packages
  • The authors are highly respected in Media Studies and recognised as big names in the field

  • Improved text design aids understanding of the text

Table of Contents:
Preface
Chapter 1 Approaching research
Chapter 2 Using archives
Chapter 3 Sampling and selecting
Chapter 4 Asking questions
Chapter 5 Handling numbers
Chapter 6 Counting contents
Chapter 7 Analysing texts
Chapter 8 Unpacking news
Chapter 9 Viewing the image
Chapter 10 Interpreting images
Chapter 11 Being an observer
Chapter 12 Attending to talk
Chapter 13 Taking talk apart
Chapter 14 Using computers
Chapter 15 On-line investigating
Chapter 16 Beyond methodology
Glossary

About the Author(s):
David Deacon is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Science, Loughborough, UK. Michael Pickering is Professor in the Department of Social Science, Loughborough, UK. Peter Golding is Professor in the Department of Social Science, Loughborough, UK and Chair of the European Sociological Association Media Research Network. Graham Murdock is Reader in the Department of Social Science, Loughborough, UK.

Readership:
Undergraduate students taking modules which require a knowledge of research methods for communication, cultural and media studies.

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