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How to Analyze Social Media? Assessing the Promise of Mixed-Methods Designs for Studying the Twitter Feeds of PMSCs
International Studies Perspectives, volume 20, issue 2 (2019), pp. 188-200
"Social scientists and international relations scholars are increasingly analyzing data collected from Twitter or Facebook to examine political processes in which social media are used. The sheer amount of web 2.0 data and its heterogeneity (including text, photos, and videos), however, pose challen
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Analyzing Media Messages: Using Quantitative Content Analysis in Research
New York; London: Routledge, 4th ed. (2019), ix, 224 pp.
"Analyzing Media Messages, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive guide to conducting content analysis research. It establishes a formal definition of quantitative content analysis; gives step-by-step instructions on designing a content analysis study; and explores in depth several recurring questi
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European Video Measurement Matrix: A Robust View of Industry Metrics
FreeWheel Council for Premium Video Europe (FWCE) (2018), 6 pp.
"The European Video Measurement Matrix provides a unique reference tool on different audience and verification measurement providers’ capabilities and methodologies. Through this overview, the FreeWheel Council for Premium Video, Europe (FWCE) aims to shed light on similarities and differences acr
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For the Attention of African Media Scholars: An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Bruce Mutsvairo (ed.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 465-482
"What this chapter does is to see critical disourse analysis (CDA) as a method of critical enquiry in communication research that is beyond traditional academic analysis. The chapter looks at CDA as a Western-originated paradigm of social enquiry with a difference. As I will discuss in subsequent se
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Web Metrics for Nonprofit News Organizations
Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, Media Impact Project (2018), 19 pp.
"As a nonprofit news entity, getting analytics you need to prove your impact to your organization and its funders can be a challenging undertaking given that the rules for other news outlets don’t apply to you. But there are workarounds. This guide covered some of those strategies: Understanding b
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Can Machine Learning Help Us Measure the Trustworthiness of News?
Washington, DC: IREX (2018), 34 pp.
"IREX partnered with Lore.Ai to test whether machine learning software can automatically detect news articles that contains journalists’ own opinions. This matters because impartial, fact-based news is a powerful indicator for the quality of media and the vibrancy of an information ecosystem. A te
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Digital Stories as Data
In: Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
Jan Servaes (ed.)
Singapore: Springer (2018), 11 pp.
"This chapter describes how digital storytelling can be used as a method for data collection. The author’s dissertation study is used to demonstrate the practical application of this method." (Abstract)
A Guide to Conducting Research in Emerging Markets
GeoPoll (2018), 31 pp.
"This free, 30-page report from GeoPoll is an in-depth guide to methods of market research and best practices for conducting survey research in hard to reach areas of the world. GeoPoll experts share knowledge gained through years of engaging consumers in emerging markets across the world, with spec
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Qualitative Communication Research Methods
Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 4th ed. (2018), xix, 494 pp.
"Qualitative Communication Research Methods introduces readers to qualitative research in speech and mass communication. Award-winning scholars and authors Thomas R. Lindlof and Bryan C. Taylor guide readers through every step of the qualitative process, from developing research topics and questions
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Media Research Methods: Audiences, Institutions, Texts
Key Guidance
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd ed. (2018), xiv, 385 pp.
"Unique in approach, the text focus on how to do media research across three key strands – audiences, institutions and texts –and critically assesses a wide range of methods, addressing why they are appropriate or useful in certain scenarios. Written by two experts with a wealth of experience be
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The Sage Handbook of Social Media Research Methods
London: Sage (2017), 709 pp.
"The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods offers a step-by-step guide to overcoming the challenges inherent in research projects that deal with 'big and broad data', from the formulation of research questions through to the interpretation of findings. The handbook includes chapters on spec
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Inhaltsanalyse: Theorie und Praxis
Konstanz: UVK, 9., überarb. Aufl. (2017), 295 pp.
"Dieses seit Jahren bewährte Lehrbuch ist eine theoretisch fundierte Anleitung zur praktischen Durchführung von Inhaltsanalysen. Neben der Beschreibung von konventionellen Verfahren entwickelt Werner Früh eine „integrative Inhaltsanalyse“, die eine analytisch-deduktive mit einer interpretativ
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Manuel d'observation des médias pendant la période électorale: Un guide d'observation à l'attention des médias et des missions d'observation électorales
Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2017), 131 pp.
"Ce manuel a pour but d’accompagner les missions d’observation électorale dans leur mission de surveillance des contenus médiatiques et des discours politiques, la qualité du discours des acteurs politiques et le comportement des médias dans une période clé de la vie démocratique. Il donn
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Integrative Framing Analysis: Framing Health Through Words and Visuals
London: Routledge (2017), x, 170 pp.
"Much of framing scholarship focuses either exclusively on the analysis of words or of visuals. This book aims to address this gap by proposing a six-step approach to the analysis of verbal frames, visual frames and the interplay between them—an integrative framing analysis. This approach is then
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Quick Guide to Sampling: 6 Sampling Techniques to Reduce Sampling Error
socialcops (2017), 13 pp.
"Ideally, a survey should gather data on every single person in the target population. For example, a survey about learning outcomes at a small school could track the test scores of every student. Collecting data on everyone in the target population is the best case scenario, since it ensures that e
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The Ultimate Guide to Effective Data Collection
Key Guidance
socialcops (2017), 44 pp.
"What is the purpose of your survey? What data are you looking to collect? How can you best collect that data? What sort of survey and research methodology should you use? How should you write the questions in your survey? Who should you survey? This ebook is designed to take you through these quest
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Guideline on Mobile Research
ESOMAR;Global Research Business Network (GRBN) (2017), 16 pp.
"This ESOMAR/GRBN Guideline on Mobile Research is intended to support researchers, especially those in small and medium-sized research organisations, in addressing legal, ethical and practical considerations when conducting research using mobile devices. It explains how to apply the fundamental prin
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Using Machine Learning to Analyse Radio Talk in Uganda: Opportunities for Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Action
UN Global Pulse;Pulse Lab Kampala (2017), 23 pp.
"This report outlines the methodology and processes of the Radio Content Analysis Tool, a prototype developed by Pulse Lab Kampala to analyse public radio content in Uganda and explore its value for informing development of UN projects and programmes on the ground. It distills the technology behind
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Conducting Mobile Surveys Responsibly
Rome: World Food Programme (WFP) (2017), 22 pp.
Tracer Studies
INTRAC (2017), 3 pp.
"In a tracer study, data is collected and analysed repeatedly over time. For monitoring and evaluation purposes, tracer studies are often designed to track changes at individual level, following a development intervention. However, they might also focus on other units of analysis such as communities
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