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Interviews
INTRAC (2017), 4 pp.
"Interviews are routinely carried out when projects and programmes are planned, monitored or evaluated. Interviews may be carried out face-to-face or through remote media. They may be carried out with individuals or groups. They may be unstructured, semi-structured or structured. And they may be inf
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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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Surveys and Questionnaires
INTRAC (2017), 5 pp.
"Surveys and questionnaires are designed to collect and record information from multiple people, groups or organisations in a consistent way. Surveys and questionnaires can be used on their own as data collection tools. They are also an essential part of some more complex data collection and analysi
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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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Conducting Mobile Surveys Responsibly
Rome: World Food Programme (WFP) (2017), 22 pp.
Site internet: Audit et stratégie
Bruxelles: De Boeck (2017), 208 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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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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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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"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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Handbuch nicht standardisierte Methoden in der Kommunikationswissenschaft
Key Guides
Deep Insights
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2016), xi, 585 pp.
Media Audience Research: A Guide for Professionals
Key Guides
New Delhi et al.: Sage, 3rd ed. (2016), xvi, 281 pp.
"This book outlines all the methods for conducting research—both active and passive as well as quantitative and qualitative—in all forms of media, including new media such as the Internet, mobile phones and social media. It explains the ways in which media audiences are measured, understood and
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Ratings, the State and Globalization: The Politics of Television Audience Measurement in Israel
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 2 (2016), pp. 159-174
"This is a study of the introduction to Israel of a technology for measuring television audiences, the 'People Meter' (PM), focusing on its political aspects. It links the new practice to the history of the state, precisely to the emergence of the neoliberal state, which brought about a new relation
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Analyser la radio: Méthodes et mises en pratique
Key Guides
Louvain-la-Neuve: De Boeck (2016), 254 pp.
"Un manuel qui propose méthodes et références pour aborder et analyser l’offre radiophonique, les acteurs de la radio, ses dispositifs, ses matériaux, ses émissions, ses contenus, ses publics et les métadiscours développés à son propos." (Description de la maison d'édition)
Research Methods in Intercultural Communication: A Practical Guide
Chichester; Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2016), xvi, 347 pp.
"Mecodify is an open-source tool created as part of the Media Conflict and Democratization Project (http://mecodem.eu) to help gather, analyse and visualise Twitter data for use by social science scholars. The name describes what it does, i.e., Message Codification by converting messages to systemat
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Revisiting the Measurement of Political Participation for the Digital Age
In: Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2016), pp. 539-562
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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The Use of IVR to Support Monitoring and Evaluation of Media Interventions: A Case Study of the VOTO System in Rwanda
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2016), 21 pp.
"This report described a pilot study using the VOTO Interactive Voice Response (IVR) platform to 1) distribute content and 2) collect quantitative and qualitative monitoring and evaluation data regarding a media program in Rwanda. In addition to showing that the VOTO system worked well as a distribu
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