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Researching Communications: A Practical Guide to Methods in Media and Cultural Analysis
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The new edition of the highly respected Researching Communications is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to researching media and communication. Introducing the major research methods, giving detailed examples of research analysis and practical step-by-step guidance in clear language, Researching Communications, Second Edition, is an invaluable guide to performing and analysing research tasks.
Written by highly regarded experts in the field, the new edition includes expanded and updated sections on the Internet, on-line databases and the latest CAQDAS packages, as well as new case studies, international examples and details of recent developments in media and communication studies.
Undergraduate and postgraduate media and communication studies students will find Researching Communications an invaluable resource at all stages of their course.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #246962 in Books
- Published on: 2007-07-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 440 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"The key strength of this book are built on clear explanations of the relationship of theory to research, the strong emphasis placed on practical application (the 'how to') of the methods and techniques discussed and the guidance given in relation to the stages of the research process."
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"The key strength of this book are built on clear explanations of the relationship of theory to research, the strong emphasis placed on practical application (the 'how to') of the methods and techniques discussed and the guidance given in relation to the stages of the research process."
About the Author
David Deacon is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Science, Loughborough, UK.
Michael Pickering is Professor in the Department of Social Science, Loughborough, UK.
Peter Golding is Professor in the Department of Social Science, Loughborough, UK and Chair of the European Sociological Association Media Research Network.
Graham Murdock is Reader in the Department of Social Science, Loughborough, UK.
Customer Reviews
The best of the bunch. Wide-ranging and very clear.
I would recommend this book. Its strengths are its great clarity and the fact that it evidently draws on a wealth of actual research experience. It also reaches out, helpfully, towards the developments in contiguous areas (for example, in taking on board the best of recent work in the analysis of symbolic forms) while being properly critical of the wilder parts of this domain. There are some mildly irritating aspects to the book, I felt, which seem to me to arise from a wish to reach an audience ranging from undergraduates to postgraduates; and there is a rather unsatisfactory, 'old-fashioned' account of different research epistemologies (positivist, hermeneutic, critical ... hmmm, I remember being unconvinced by this tripartite division more than 20 years ago). But its strengths far outweigh its weaknesses, and I am certainly recommending it to my students.
made for the course!
written by all loughborough lecturers this textbook seems to have been completely designed for the media course they run! A very useful book for Loughborough students, but I feel there would be far more helpful books out there for other students, that give a far more open analysis of practical media.
