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Summary:

This handbook covers perspectives from both the social sciences and the humanities. It provides guidelines for how to think about, plan, and carry out studies of media in different social and cultural contexts.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : The state of convergence in media and communication research / Klaus Bruhn Jensen
• The humanistic sources of media and communication research / Klaus Bruhn Jensen
• Media, culture, and modern times : social science investigations / Graham Murdock
• The production of entertainment media / Amanda D. Lotz and Horace Newcomb
• The study of news production / Stig Hjarvard
• Discursive realities / Kim Christian Schroøder
• Mediated fictions / Peter Larsen
• Media effects : quantitative traditions / Klaus Bruhn Jensen
• Media reception : qualitative traditions / Klaus Bruhn Jensen
• Communication in contexts : beyond mass-interpersonal and online-offline divides / Klaus Bruhn Jensen
• The cultural contexts of media and communication / Klaus Bruhn Jensen
• History, media, and communication / Paddy Scannell
• The quantitative research process / Barrie Gunter
• The qualitative research process / Klaus Bruhn Jensen
• The complementarity of qualitative and quantitative methodologies in media and communication research / Klaus Bruhn Jensen
• Audiences in the round : multi-method research in factual and reality television / Annette Hill
• The multi-grounded theory of parental mediation : exploring the complementarity of qualitative and quantitative communication research / Lynn Schofield Clark
• Personal media in everyday life : a baseline study / Rasmus Helles
• The social origins and uses of media and communication research / Klaus Bruhn Jensen.

Contributors:

Jensen, Klaus Bruhn

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Mass media — Research — Methodology

Humanities — Methodology

Social sciences — Methodology

Mass media

Humanities

Social sciences

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-411) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

P91.3 .H35 2012eb

ISBNs:

9780203357255 (electronic bk.)
0203357256 (electronic bk.)
9780415609654 [Invalid]
0415609658 [Invalid]
9780415609661 [Invalid]
0415609666 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

785927939

Other Control Numbers:

EBC958225 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp6935962