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Video Ethnography in Practice: Planning, Shooting, and Editing for Social Analysis
Los Angeles: Sage (2017), xix, 139 pp.
"Video Ethnography in Practice is a brief guide for students in the social disciplines who are required to produce an ethnographic video, the most significant new methodological technique in 21st century social analysis. The authors, both accomplished videographers, cover the basic techniques of cre
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Quasi-Experimental Approaches
INTRAC (2017), 6 pp.
"Experimental approaches work by comparing changes in a group that receives a development intervention with a group that does not. The difference is then attributed to the intervention. In a full experimental approach, units are randomly allocated to two groups – one that receives the intervention
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Measurement Matters: Difficulties in Defining and Measuring Children’s Television Viewing in a Changing Media Landscape
Media International Australia, volume 163, issue 1 (2017), pp. 67-76
"Audience measurement techniques currently fail to provide a clear picture of trends in children’s television viewing because of the diversification in devices on which television content can be viewed. It is argued that understanding how children engage with television content is undermined by co
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The Ultimate Guide to Effective Data Collection
Key Guides
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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Décoder les séries télévisées
Louvain-La-Neuve: De Boeck, 2e éd. (2017), 282 pp.
"Il suffit d’allumer son petit écran pour s’en rendre compte : les séries télévisées monopolisent les chaînes. Présentes dans la grille des programmes et objets de discussion dans la presse depuis les années 1950, elles sont devenues récemment un phénomène majeur, passionnant autant l
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Randomised Control Trials
INTRAC (2017), 6 pp.
"In a Randomised Control Trial (RCT) different units are randomly assigned to separate groups. One group receives a development intervention and the other does not. Changes in the two groups over time are then compared to accurately measure the effect of the intervention. RCTs have been much debated
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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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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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"Sampling is a process that enables information to be collected from a small number of individuals or organisations within a project or programme, and then used to draw conclusions about a wider population. There are many different sampling methods. Quantitative analysis tends to require large, rand
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Photography and Video
INTRAC (2017), 3 pp.
"Photography and video can be used as data collection methods. They can also be used to help analyse or communicate information. Photography and video can be used as monitoring and evaluation tools on their own, or in combination with other methodologies. They can both be applied as participatory te
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Inhaltsanalyse
Konstanz: UVK, 3., völlig überarb. Aufl. (2017), 292 pp.
"Patrick Rössler führt Schritt für Schritt und anhand einer Beispielstudie in das Handwerk der quantitativ-standardisierten Inhaltsanalyse ein. Ein Muster-Codebuch mit entsprechenden Kategorien dient dabei als Prototyp für eigene Untersuchungen. Die dritte Auflage wurde grundlegend überarbeitet
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Focus Group Discussions
INTRAC (2017), 3 pp.
"Focus group discussions are facilitated discussions, held with a small group of people who have specialist knowledge or interest in a particular topic. They are used to find out the perceptions and attitudes of a defined group of people. Focus group discussions can be applied at any stage of the pr
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Secondary Data Sources
INTRAC (2017), 2 pp.
"Sometimes, information is used for planning, monitoring or evaluation that has previously been collected by other people or organisations for their own purposes. This is known as secondary data. There are many potential sources of secondary data. Secondary data can be used at any stage of a project
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Measuring journalism safety. Methodological challenges
In: The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), pp. 129-140
"The effectiveness of any measures taken to address the problems of journalism safety ultimately depends on our ability to understand the complex nature and dynamics of risk to journalists. Mapping the scale of the problem through the systematic collection of data on threats over time is therefore a
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Methodological Reflections on Researching Communication and Social Change
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xii, 219 pp.
"This book identifies the strengths and weaknesses of different methodological approaches to research in communication and social change. It examines the methodological opportunities and challenges occasioned by rapid technological affordances and society-wide transformations. This study provides gr
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Using Social Media for Research, Monitoring and Evaluation in the MENA Region: World Food Programme Case Study
London: Department for International Development (DFID) (2016), 42 pp.
"This report presents an evaluation of the utility of social media for conducting research, monitoring and evaluation in the MENA region, using a case study approach. The Twitter based reaction to the reported cancellation/reduction of food provision by World Food Programme (WFP) for Syrian Refuges
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Ethics and Visual Research Methods: Theory, Methodology, and Practice
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxi, 266 pp.
"This edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of ethical issues associated with visual research methods. Considering the work of researchers across a range of disciplines using visual methods in research, it offers practical and thoughtful discussions of emerging methodological and ethic
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Media and Communication Research Methods: An Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
Thousand Oaks; London; New Delhi: Sage, 4th ed. (2016), xvii, 417 pp.
"Media and Communication Research Methods, Fourth Edition is a concise and practical text designed to give students a step-by-step introduction to conducting media and communication research. Offering real-world insights along with the author’s signature animated style, this text makes the discuss
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Research Methods in Intercultural Communication: A Practical Guide
Chichester; Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2016), xvi, 347 pp.
A New Companion to Digital Humanities
Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2016), xviii, 567 pp.
