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Title A handbook of media and communication research : qualitative and quantitative methodologies / edited by Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Published London : Routledge, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (x, 332 pages)
Contents pt. 1. History: sources of media and communication research -- Humanities in media and communication research / Klaus Bruhn Jensen -- Media, culture and modern times: social science investigations / Graham Murdock -- pt. 2. Systematics: processes of mediated communication -- Media organizations -- Production of media fiction / Horace Newcomb, Amanda Lotz -- Production of news / Gaye Tuchman -- Study of international news / Stig Hjarvard -- Media texts -- Discourses of fact / Kim Christian Schrøder -- Mediated fiction / Peter Larsen -- Media audiences -- Media effects: quantitative traditions / Klaus Bruhn Jensen -- Media reception: qualitative traditions / Klaus Bruhn Jensen -- Media contexts -- Contexts, cultures and computers: the cultural contexts of mediated communication / Klaus Bruhn Jensen -- History, media and communication / Paddy Scannell -- pt. 3. Practice: scientific approaches and social applications -- Quantitative research process / Barrie Gunter -- Qualitiative research process / Klaus Bruhn Jensen -- Complementarity of qualitative and quantitative methodologies in media and communication research / Klaus Bruhn Jensen -- Social origins and uses of media and communication research / Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Summary This handbook covers perspectives from both the social sciences and the humanities. It provides guidelines for how to think about, plan, and carry out studies of media in different social and cultural contexts
Annotation A Handbook of Media and Communications Researchpresents qualitative as well as quantitative approaches to the analysis and interpretation of media, covering perspectives from both the social sciences and the humanities. The Handbookoffers 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, the Handbookwill be a standard reference work for students and researchers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mass media -- Research -- Methodology
Communication -- Research -- Methodology
Communication -- Research -- Methodology
Mass media -- Research -- Methodology
Massamedia.
Onderzoeksmethoden.
Form Electronic book
Author Jensen, Klaus Bruhn.
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