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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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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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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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Open Source Investigation Toolkit
Key Guides
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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Hörspielanalyse: Eine Einführung
Key Guides
Bielefeld: transcript (2024), 294 pp.
"Obwohl das Hörspiel eine Renaissance erlebt und im Alltag vieler Menschen einen festen Platz hat, fehlte für seine wissenschaftliche Erforschung bislang eine Zusammenschau der relevanten Grundlagen. Matthias C. Hänselmann stellt erstmals das komplette Instrumentarium zur Analyse und Interpretati
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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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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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Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials
Los Angeles: Sage, 5th ed. (2023), xv, 454 pp.
"Whatever level of experience you have, this classic text will provide you with the key skills you need to complete a visual methods research project, understand the rationale behind each step, and engage with the contexts and power relations that shape our interpretation of visual images. With a cl
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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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To Know is to Compare: Studying Social Media Across Nations, Media, and Platforms
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2023), x, 212 pp.
"The authors argue that scholarship on social media has been limited by an over-reliance on single country studies that focus on one platform at a time, without considering the ties between platforms and other media. To overcome these limitations, the authors propose that social media are better und
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How to Design, Implement, and Analyse a Survey
Glos: Edward Elgar Publishing (2023), vi, 162 pp.
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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Challenges and Perspectives of Hate Speech Research
Deep Insights
Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Media and Communication Studies (2023), 482 pp.
"This book is the result of a conference that could not take place. It is a collection of 26 texts that address and discuss the latest developments in international hate speech research from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. This includes case studies from Brazil, Lebanon, Poland, Nigeria,
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Revealing Media Bias in News Articles: NLP Techniques for Automated Frame Analysis
Cham: Springer (2023), xiii, 238 pp.
"This open access book presents an interdisciplinary approach to reveal biases in English news articles reporting on a given political event. The approach named person-oriented framing analysis identifies the coverage's different perspectives on the event by assessing how articles portray the person
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A systematic review of photovoice research methods with people with intellectual disabilities
Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, volume 36, issue 4 (2023), pp. 1-14
"Photovoice is an arts-based participatory action research methodology that is growing in popularity. Our aim was to systematically review photovoice research with people with intellectual disabilities to describe the current'state of the art' and identify areas for further methodological considerat
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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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