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War Reporting
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Indigenous Communication
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News
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Stereotypes in Media & Communication
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Network Analysis
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Process-Tracing Methods: Foundations and Guidelines
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2nd ed. (2019), x, 318 pp.
"Process-tracing in social science is a method for studying causal mechanisms linking causes with outcomes. This enables the researcher to make strong inferences about how a cause (or set of causes) contributes to producing an outcome. In this extensively revised and updated edition, Derek Beach and
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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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Methods for Studying Video Games and Religion
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xviii, 221 pp.
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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Measuring journalism safety. Methodological challenges
In: The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
Ulla Carlsson; Reeta Pöyhtäri (eds.)
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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To Train a Watchdog: Media Development, Statebuilding, and Measurement in South Sudan
Cardiff: Cardiff University, Doctoral Thesis (2017), ix, 291, 94 pp.
"[...] This thesis contributes to the emerging academic literature on media development and its role in statebuilding. It does so by investigating media development in the new state of South Sudan. Ethnographic observations, a social survey, and unstructured interviews have been applied during a fie
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Die Beobachtung als Methode in der Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft
Konstanz: UVK, 2., völlig überarb. Aufl. (2017), 168 pp.
Qualitative Medienfoschung: Ein Handbuch
Konstanz: UVK, 2nd ed. (2017), 642 pp.
"Auf die theoretischen Grundlagen qualitativer Medienforschung folgen in einem zweiten Teil die wichtigsten Fragen zum Forschungsdesign. Kern des Buches sind dabei die verschiedenen Erhebungsmethoden, wie Inhaltsanalyse, Interview, Gruppendiskussion, Beobachtung, Experiment oder szenisches Spiel. We
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Décoder les séries télévisées
Louvain-La-Neuve: De Boeck, 2e éd. (2017), 282 pp.
Research Methods in Intercultural Communication: A Practical Guide
Chichester; Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2016), xvi, 347 pp.
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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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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Handbuch nicht standardisierte Methoden in der Kommunikationswissenschaft
Key Guidance
Top Insights
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2016), xi, 585 pp.
Methoden der empirischen Kommunikationsforschung: Eine Einführung
Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 7., überarb. und aktual. Aufl. (2016), xi, 265 pp.
Repensando la investigación en ciencias sociales: Guía de trabajos de grado para comunicadores sociales
La Paz: Universidad Católica Boliviana;Plural Editores (2016), 174 pp.
La comunicación y los medios: Metodologías de investigación cualitativa y cuantitativa
Mexico, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) (2014), 689 pp.
Measuring Media Impact: An Overview of the Field
USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, Media Impact Project (2014), 34 pp.
"[...] technological changes in the media sector have opened up a range of new analytical opportunities for understanding the impact that media can have across a range of relevant criteria. Thus, the field of media impact assessment is in a period of rapid innovation and change, in which new approac
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The Handbook of Mobile Market Research: Tools and Techniques for Market Researchers
Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley (2014), xiii, 295 pp.
Journalistische Qualität: Eine empirische Untersuchung des Konstrukts mithilfe der Concept Map Methode
Publizistik, volume 59, issue 4 (2014), pp. 387-410
"Leitende Redakteure sowie Wissenschaftler aus dem Bereich der journalistischen Qualitätsforschung stellten ihre Vorstellungen von journalistischer Qualität in Form einer Concept Map dar. Die so gewonnenen Daten konnten nach dem Vorgehen von Roedder John et al. (2006) auf eine sogenannte Consens M
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Media and Communication Research Methods
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), viii, 320 pp.
