Researching Communications, Second Edition provides a practical, authoritative, step-by-step guide to media and communications studies students taking courses in communications research. The authors also examine the complementary nature of qualitative and quantitative research methods, and aim to show how these techniques hold up in practice. The new edition also incorporates new information on using archives and computers as well as the use of the internet as a resource for research.

'This is an enormously useful text for anyone interested in an up-to-date guide to cultural analysis; it will be indispensible for teaching research methods in communication studies.' - Hanno Hardt, University of Iowa

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David Deacon is Professor of Communication and Media Analysis at Loughborough University, UK. He has published widely on journalism, political communication, communication theory and media history. His other books include The British News Media and the Spanish Civil War: Tomorrow May Be Too Late and Mediating Social Science (2008, with Natalie Fenton and Alan Bryman).

Graham Murdock has been Vice President of the International Association of Media and Communications Research, held visiting professorships at the Universities of Auckland, California at San Diego, Mexico City, Curtin, Bergen, the Free University of Brussels, and Stockholm and has taught widely across China. His work has been translated into 21 languages. His recent books include: as co-editor, Money Talks: Media, Markets, Crisis (2015) and Carbon Capitalism and Communication: Confronting Climate Change (2017).

Michael Pickering has published in the fields of media studies, social and cultural history, and the sociology of art and culture. His recent books include Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain (2008/2016); Research Methods for Cultural Studies (2008); The Mnemonic Imagination (2012), Photography, Music and Memory, and Memory and the Management of Change, co-written with Emily Keightley; Research Methods for Memory Studies (2013); and Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain (2013), co-written with Marek Korczynski and Emma Robertson.

Peter Golding is emeritus professor at Northumbria University, UK, where he was Pro Vice-Chancellor until retirement. He edits the European Journal of Communication, is Hon. President of the European Sociological Association media research network, and Hon Sec. of the UK subject association for university media and cultural studies. He has written or edited about a dozen books and written over a hundred articles on the media, and is currently completing a book on communications and inequality.

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