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Climate Asia Quantitative Survey Methodology
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 8 pp.
Practical Community Radio Audience Measurement
In: Community Radio in the Twenty-First Century
Oxford; Bern; Berlin et al.: Peter Lang (2012), pp. 347-366
"For community radio stations, one important gauge of relevance is the Popularity of their programming outputs, as without evidence of this it is difficult to justify providing access to scarce broadcast frequency resources. In part, the popularity ofprogramming outputs can be assessed through varia
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Handbook of Survey Methodology for the Social Sciences
New York: Springer (2012), 520 pp.
"Surveys enjoy great ubiquity among data collection methods in social research: they are flexible in questioning techniques, in the amount of questions asked, in the topics covered, and in the various ways of interactions with respondents. Surveys are also the preferred method by many researchers in
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Measuring Community Radio Audiences
In: Radio Evolution: Conference Proceedings
Braga: University of Minho, Communication and Society Research Centre (2012), pp. 377-386
"This paper will use the example of the approach taken by UK Community Radio station, 'Future Radio' to obtain both quantitative data primarily through street surveys and qualitative data through on-line questionnaires, exploring why the station felt such research to be both necessary and beneficial
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Audience Research in Extremis: Cold War Broadcasting to the USSR
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 104-131
"How could Western broadcasters during the Cold War learn about their audiences in the USSR when they were denied the possibility of conducting surveys within the country? In response to this quandary, second-best approaches were developed at Radio Liberty employing interviews with travellers outsid
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Designs, Devices and Development: Audience Research as Creative Resource in the Making of an Afghan Radio Drama
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 132-153
"This essay analyses the role of audience research as a change agent in media development interventions in Afghanistan. It analyses how audience research in transnational contexts involves a complex set of intercultural negotiations and translations that contribute to the enduring relevance and sust
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Audience Research at the BBC World Service 1932-2010
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 75-103
"This article examines the changing ways in which intelligence about the BBC’s international audiences has been gathered and used since the advent of the Empire Service in 1932. It is written from the perspective of a former Head of Audience Research (1982-96) at the BBC World Service. In BBC dome
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Rating the Audience: The Business of Media
London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic (2011), xvi, 272 pp.
"Rating the Audience is the first book to show why and how audience ratings research became a convention, an agreement, and the first to interrogate the ways that agreement is now under threat. Taking a historical approach, the book looks at the evolution of audience ratings and the survey industry.
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El rating de la televisión: El numerito que mueve millones y desencadena pasiones
Key Guides
Buenos Aires: La CrujÃa (2011), 174 pp.
"La idea de este libro pretende cumplir dos propósitos: por un lado desarrollar un aspecto didáctico para todos aquellos estudiantes de medios o productores de programas, que recién toman contacto con este indicador y hacerles saber, de manera simple, clara y básica, que es exactamente el rating
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Web-Monitoring: Gewinnung und Analyse von Daten über das Kommunikationsverhalten im Internet
Konstanz: UVK (2010), 412 pp.
Audience Research for Campus Radio Stations
Lagos; Dakar Ponty (SN): Institute for Media and Society (IMS); Panos West Africa (2010), 81 pp.
Del ágora al rating: La investigación y medición de audiencias
México, DF: Cámara de Diputados; Porrúa (2010), 203 pp.
Knowing and Researching Your Audience
"In this chapter we outline the principles and techniques of audience research including qualitative and quantitative methods and techniques and how to understand and interpret Rajar (Radio Joint Audience Research Limited) surveys. We look at some critical perspectives on audience research methodolo
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Media Research in the Arab World and the Audience Challenge: Lessons from the Field
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 3, issue 1-2 (2010), pp. 77-88
"This study focuses on the trepidations, concerns and pitfalls audience researchers face when carrying out fieldwork studies in the Arab world. Based on extrapolations and detailed observations from field research projects, combining surveys, focus groups and interviews, this article has outlined fi
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Audience Research Methods Approach to Local Radio Stations: With Particular Reference to Non-Commercial Local Christian Radio Stations in Norway
Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Müller (2010), 45 pp.
"Audience research should be an essential part of every broadcasting venture. However, many non-Commercial radio stations hardly do audience research. Often this is due to a lack of human resources and to a large extent also a lack of understanding and awareness of the nature, benefit, and role of a
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MÃdia de A a Z: Conceitos, critérios e fórmulas dos 60 principais termos de mÃdia
São Paulo: Pearson Prentice Hall, 3rd ed. (2009), xxii, 344 pp.
Formative Target Audience Research: A Case Study of Five Community Radio Stations in South Africa
Deep Insights
Grahamstown: Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership (2009), x, 127 pp.
"This report aims to 'assist radio stations to understand formative target audience research and enable them to conduct such research'. The report is primarily based on the experiences with Focus Group Discussions (FGD's) of five South African community radio stations. The publication contains an in
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"This is the 'concise edition' of 'The Guide to Researching Audiences'. It is a shorter version of the main Guide, designed to provide an easily accessible summary of the key principles of audience research and some practical information. The full version of the Guide contains more detailed informat
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Manual for Measuring ICT Access and Use by Households and Individuals
Geneva: ITU (2009), 114 pp.
Measuring Media Audiences
"This chapter is about some of the practices of audience research and, in particular, the methodologies and techniques employed in measuring the audiences of different broadcasting, print and outdoor media, the cinema as well as new media such as the internet. It also gives attention to audience mea
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