Researching Communications: A Practical Guide to Methods in Media and Cultural Analysis - Hardcover

David Deacon; Graham Murdock; Michael Pickering; Peter Golding

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1501316966 ISBN 13: 9781501316968

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Synopsis

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 examples of research analysis, and offering practical step-by-step guidance in clear language, Researching Communications, Third Edition, is an invaluable guide to performing and analysing research tasks.

The new edition includes expanded and updated sections on social media, e-methods, comparative research, online data bases, international case studies and details of recent developments in media and communication studies.

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Review

Researching Communications does a superb job of explaining both cultural analysis and social research methods. Covering everything from semiotics to statistics and discourse analysis to computers, it is also an up-to-date, authoritative, and extremely well-written introduction to communications in general. I recommend this book to anyone who teaches courses in research and communication. (Arthur Asa Berger, San Franciso State University,)

... an enormously useful text for anyone interested in an up-to-date guide to cultural analysis; it will be indispensable for teaching research methods in communication studies. (Hanno Hardt, University of Iowa, USA)

About the Author

David Deacon is Professor of Communication and Media Analysis in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK. He has written widely on theoretical and methodological issues relating to communication and media studies.

Michael Pickering is Professor of Media and Cultural Analysis in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. He is the co-editor of Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain (2013) and, with a grant funded by the Leverhulme Trust on media and memory, The Mnemonic Imagination (2012).

Peter Golding is Professor and Pro Vice Chancellor of Research & Innovation at Northumbria University, UK. He holds the post of Hon President of the Media Research Network of the European Sociological Association.

Graham Murdock is Professor of Culture and Economy in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK. Murdock has held the Leerstoel (Teaching Chair) at the Free University of Brussels, the Bonnier Chair at Stockholm University, served as Professor II at the University of Bergen, and held visiting professorships at a number of other universities including Auckland, California at San Diego, Curtin (Western Ausralia), Mexico City, and Helsinki.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2021
• ISBN 10: 1501316966
• ISBN 13: 9781501316968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 480