A Handbook of Media and Communication Research: Qualitative and Quantitative MethodologiesKlaus Jensen, Klaus Bruhn Jensen TheHandbook of Media and Communication Researchpresents qualitative as well as quantitative approaches to the analysis and interpretation of media, covering perspectives from both the social sciences and the humanities. TheHandbookoffers a comprehensive review of earlier research and a set of guidelines for how to think about, plan, and carry out studies of media in different social and cultural contexts. Divided into sections on the history, systematics and pragmatics of research, and written by internationally acknowledged specialists in each area, theHandbookwill be a standard reference work for students and researchers in the field of media, communication and cultural studies. |
Contents
PART | 9 |
The humanities in media and communication research | 15 |
social science investigations | 40 |
PART 2 | 57 |
The production of news | 78 |
The study of international news | 91 |
Discourses of fact | 98 |
Mediated fiction | 117 |
the cultural contexts | 171 |
History media and communication | 191 |
SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES AND SOCIAL | 207 |
The qualitative research process | 235 |
The complementarity of qualitative and quantitative methodologies | 254 |
The social origins and uses of media and communication research | 273 |
References | 294 |
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