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Will It Be Different If I Give It Another Name? Methodologic Notes from Research with Riverside Communities in the Amazon Forest (Brazil and Ecuador)
Forum for Development Studies, volume 52, issue 1 (2025), pp. 7-30
"What makes a piece of research decolonial? Do participatory or co-creative approaches make research participatory and co-creative? These reflections are raised in this article, which looks back at methodological choices made and adapted during a three-year study with riverside communities in the Am
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Exploring a Practice-Oriented Methodology for Measuring News Media Quality in Tanzania
African Journalism Studies (2025), 19 pp.
"Measuring the quality of news media is a crucial yet often overlooked aspect of enabling informed decision-making among citizens. Despite the lack of consensus on its definition and measurement, this paper introduces a practice-oriented methodology for evaluating news media quality across print, ra
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Transcribing Oral History
New York: Routledge (2020), xix, 207 pp.
"Transcribing Oral History offers a comprehensive guide to the transcription of qualitative interviews, an often richly debated practice within oral history. Beginning with an introduction to the field and an overview of the many disciplines that conduct and transcribe interviews, the book goes on t
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Voir, comprendre, analyser les images
Paris: La Découverte, 5th ed. (2020), 189 pp.
"Ce guide d'analyse générale des images se veut résolument simple, ouvert et pluridisciplinaire. D'une part, il traite des types les plus variés d'images (tableaux, photo graphies, affiches, vidéos, cinéma, presse, cartes, plans, nouvelles images...). De ce fait, il prend en compte l'iconogra
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Doing Oral History
Key Guidance
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3rd ed. (2015), xvi, 347 pp.
"Doing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community. The recent development of digital audio and video recording te
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Metodologías de investigación en comunicación: Perspectivas transformadoras en la práctica investigativa
Quito: CIESPAL (2013), 439 pp.
"El libro Metodologías de Investigación en Comunicación, producido por el Grupo de Investigación PROCESSOCOM-CNPq-UNISINOS (Brasil) en colaboración con la Red AMLAT, reúne un conjunto de textos teórico-metodológicos que desarrolla sus argumentos a partir de proyectos realizados en el context
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Oral History
New York: Oxford University Press (2011), viii, 186 pp.
"This title is part of the 'Understanding Qualitative Research' series, which is designed to provide researchers with authoritative guides to understanding, presenting, and critiquing analyses and associated inferences. There are three subareas in this series: Quantitative Research, Measurement, and
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Métodos de investigación social
Quito: CIESPAL, 2nd ed. (2008), 580 pp.
Media Discourses: Analysing Media Texts
Maidenhead: Open University Press (2005), x, 206 pp.
Media Literacy and Media Education Research Methods: A Handbook
London; New York: Routledge (2024), x, 332 pp.
"This handbook interrogates the foundations of media literacy and media education research from a methodological standpoint. It provides a detailed, illustrated overview of key methods used in the study of media literacy and media education. Further, it reveals the diversity of this research field a
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Open Source Investigation Toolkit
Key Guidance
Bellingcat (2024)
"More than 80 percent of open source researchers that participated in two Bellingcat surveys indicated that finding the right tools can be challenging. This is where our new Online Investigations Toolkit comes in: it not only helps you discover tools in categories like satellite imagery and maps, so
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Applied communication research methods: Getting started as a researcher
New York; London: Routledge, 3rd ed. (2024), xvii, 316 pp.
"This third edition is again a practical introduction to communication research methods, foregrounding the role research plays in communication and media industry careers. Covering major methodologies such as surveys, experiments, focus groups, in-depth interviews, content analysis, and others, the
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Qualitative Methods in Communication and Media
New York: Oxford University Press (2024), xi, 217 pp.
"Qualitative Methods in Media and Communication offers a learning-centered guide to designing, conducting, and evaluating qualitative communication and media research methods. Drawing upon years of teaching qualitative research methods, Sandra L. Faulkner and Joshua D. Atkinson introduce and unpack
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Reaching Hard-To-Reach Communities: Using WhatsApp to Give Conflict-Affected Audiences a Voice
International Journal of Social Research Methodology, volume 27, issue 1 (2024), pp. 107-121
"This article provides an original and timely contribution to current cutting-edge methodological debates by discussing the ongoing need to ensure communities in zones which are inaccessible through war, conflict or disease still have a voice and are not side-lined. As seen during Covid-19, traditio
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Images and indicators: Mixing participatory methods to build inclusive rigour
Action Research, volume 22, issue 2 (2024), pp. 35-154
"Participatory methods seek to counter the extractive nature of mainstream research methods by putting control into the hands of research subjects. But participation itself does not guarantee against extraction. There is a tension between the desire for researcher-control and the prerogative of comm
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Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people’s journeys
Qualitative Research, volume 24, issue 5 (2024), pp. 1302-1311
"This research note introduces the experience of using ‘timelines’ as a visual research method during online interviewing. It does so through a series of questions and answers that guide the reader through an exploration, understanding of and reflection on the method. This qualitative approach w
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Digital platforms as socio-cultural artifacts: Developing digital methods for cultural research
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 9 (2023), pp. 1733-1755
"Social media platforms are increasingly looked at as means to investigate social phenomena like collective events, issues or causes. Digital methods – techniques exclusively focused on online data and shaped by the environment hosting these data – have become part and parcel of these investigat
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Mixing Methods: Practical Insights from the Humanities in the Digital Age
Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press; transcript Verlag (2023), 270 pp.
"The digital transformation is accompanied by two simultaneous processes: digital humanities challenging the humanities, their theories, methodologies and disciplinary identities and pushing computer science to get involved in new fields. But how can qualitative and quantitative methods be usefully
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Film- und Fernsehanalyse
München: UVK, 4. überarb. und erw. Aufl. (2023), 486 pp.
"Die Rezeption von Filmen und Fernsehsendungen ist sowohl vom Wissen und den Emotionen der Zuschauer:innen als auch von sozialen Kontexten abhängig. Es reicht daher nicht aus, die "Sprache" von Film und Fernsehen zu analysieren, sondern es müssen auch die Form, die Gestaltung, die Dramaturgie und
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