QUALITATIVE MEDIA ANALYSIS: v. 38 (Qualitative Research Methods) - Softcover

Altheide, David L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076190199X ISBN 13: 9780761901990

Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated, 1996

Synopsis

In order to prepare a successful research project, a qualitative researcher often must consult various types of media documents. How to obtain, categorize and analyze these different media documents is the subject of this book. The author looks at traditional primary documents such as newspapers and magazines, but also at more recent forms like television newscasts and cyberspace.

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About the Author

DAVID L. ALTHEIDE is Emeritus Regents' Professor on the faculty of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, where he taught for 37 years since receiving his PhD from the University of California, San Diego. His work has focused on the role of mass media and information technology in social control. His most recent book is Terror Post 9/11 and the Media (Lang, 2009). Dr. Altheide received the Cooley Award three times, given to the outstanding book in symbolic interaction, from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction: In 2007 for Terrorism and the Politics of Fear (2006); in 2004 for Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis (2002); and in 1986 for Media Power (1985). Dr. Altheide received the 2005 George Herbert Mead Award for lifetime contributions from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, and the society's Mentor Achievement Award in 2007. Altheide is married (Carla) and has two children (Tasha and Tod), and four grandchildren.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076190199X
• ISBN 13: 9780761901990
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108