This text offers an accessible guide to media research with an expanded range of examples from across the world and an updated account of the latest advances in digital media research. By considering methods in context, it particularly focuses on the benefits of combining different methods in the same research project.
Rigorous and accessible
Includes international case studies and a student-friendly glossary
Provides guidance on how to ask the 'right' research questions and select the 'right' research method
Places methods in their broader historical and theoretical contexts, to explore how they relate to the analysis of media production, content and audiences
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Updated references, statistics and examples throughout
Expanded number of case studies
Increased coverage of research ethics
Greater engagement with visual methods
Enhanced emphasis on the benefits of triangulation and the value of combining qualitative and quantitative methods in the same research project
Updated sections on media ownership in the digital landscape
New sections on contemporary photographic archives, video analysis and computer-assisted algorithmic content analysis
Expanded discussion of corpus linguistic approaches
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Anders Hansen
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