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

David Deacon, Michael Pickering, Peter Golding, Graham Murdock

New York et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, 3rd ed. (2021), xvi, 529 pp.

"The new edition of the highly respected Researching Communications is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to researching media and communication. Researching Communications, Third Edition is an invaluable guide to performing and analysing research tasks, introducing the major research methods, ... more

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Narrativas y públicos en los medios: Enfoques para un periodismo de cambio

Franklin Cornejo Urbina (ed.)

Lima: Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2021), 88 pp.

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The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies

Daria Gritsenko, Mariëlle Wijermars, Michail Vjaceslavovic Kopotev (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxiv, 612 pp.

"This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the 'digital' is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in ... more

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Medienanalyse: Ein kritisches Lehrbuch

Sabine Schiffer

Frankfurt am Main: Westend (2021), 300 pp.

"Sabine Schiffer legt nun ein Buch vor, das sowohl theoretische Grundlagen liefert als auch an etlichen Beispielen aufzeigt, wie Medienanalyse konkret aussieht. Welche Möglichkeiten gibt es, innerhalb der täglichen Informationsflut den Überblick darüber zu behalten, was echt und wahr und was fal ... more

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Discourse Analysis

Ken Hyland, Brian Paltridge, Lillian L. C. Wong (eds.)

London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2021), xvi, 372 pp.

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The Measurement of Trust in Communication Research, Part 2

Paola Pascual-Ferrá

Communication Research Trends, volume 40, issue 1 (2021), pp. 4-36

"In this review of the literature I have attempted to show how researchers in different areas of communication have conceptualized and operationalized trust and trust-related concepts. Trust has been associated most with the concept of credibility, but other words that have been used to operationali ... ze it include believability, accuracy, honesty, truthfulness, trustworthiness, sincerity, competence, expertise, reliability, and goodwill, to name some. The concept of trust, just as credibility, is multi-dimensional, and it seems to depend on the context, the person, and the task that is evaluated, as one may not necessarily trust another with a personal secret but may trust that person to complete a work-related task well. As might have become evident to the reader, our discipline's interest in measuring trust has been mostly utilitarian: trust as a means to an end (e.g., persuasion, credibility, and effectiveness of the communicator, to name some). While not all of the trust-related research in communication has been self-serving, it has focused mostly on the benefits that communicators can derive from growing others' trust in them, and less on the benefit that the act of trusting may have on others beyond the communicator, or other possible outcomes stemming from trust. One of the few exceptions has been in the instructional communication literature, where measures of trust have been used to study levels of student satisfaction, development and learning; interpersonal communication, where measures of trust have been used to study satisfaction in relationships between friends and romantic partners; and health communication, where communicating trust in the patient-provider interaction can increase the patient's self-awareness and sense of well-being. The mostly transactional and utilitarian view of trust that has dominated so far is perhaps a reflection of the increased professionalization of the discipline, the need for practical applications within the business setting and the cultures that sustain them and are in turn sustained by them. It would be interesting for future research to consider trust from the perspective of the person who is doing the trusting what impact does trust have on them beyond being persuaded and returning as consumers of information and products? It would be interesting for future research to approach the study of trust from that perspective as well as from non-traditional (read non-Western/Anglo-Saxon) socioeconomic and cultural perspectives." (Conclusion, page 21) more

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Questions to Help Buyers of Online Samples

Amsterdam: ESOMAR (2021), 22 pp.

"This set of questions offers a framework for buyers to use when evaluating the offerings of different online sample providers. It updates and replaces the 2012 ESOMAR publication, 28 Questions to Help Buyers of Online Samples. The questions identify the key issues to consider, introduce consistent ... terminology, explain why each question should be asked, and note the issues buyers should expect to be covered in an answer. The intended use of these questions is that they form a basis for a conversation between buyer and sample provider, rather than simply being used as a checklist to compare offerings across providers. The questions do not cover B2B samples, nor do they attempt to cover specific requirements for different types of research such as pricing, new product development, ad testing etc. When online access panels were first introduced in the 1990s, the model was relatively simple: a buyer provided sampling specifications to a panel owner who drew a sample (from that panel). Over the intervening 25 years, online sample selection has changed in two fundamental ways. First, buyers can now access a a broader set of sources that now includes participants in loyalty programmes and rewards communities within “Get Paid To’ sites, customer lists, intercepts from offer walls, affiliate networks, social media, and other platforms, as well as traditional panels that may or may not be owned by the provider. Second, buyers have the option to access these sources directly via self-service tools, rather than relying on a sample provider to generate the sample on their behalf. There have been other important changes as well. Online research has become truly global and mobile devices have become a common data collection platform. The use of online samples has broadened beyond surveys to include qual/quant applications, communities, passive data collection, and so on. Concerns about privacy and data protection have led to a much-changed regulatory environment that imposes new requirements on both sample buyers and sample providers. Quality assurance techniques have become increasingly sophisticated. As a consequence, the number of issues that buyers must consider when choosing a sample provider has increased substantially." (Purpose and scope, page 3) more

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La singulière fabrique des sondages d'opinion

Michel Lejeune

Paris: L'Harmattan (2021), 164 pp.

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Media and Digital Technologies for Mixed Methods Research in Public Health Emergencies Such as COVID-19: Lessons Learned from Using Interactive Radio–SMS for Social Research in Somalia

Johanna Riha, Claudia Abreu Lopes, Naima Abdi Ibrahim, Sharath Srinivasan

Journal of Mixed Methods Research, volume 15, issue 3 (2021), pp. 304-326

"Radio shows which invite audience participation via short message service (SMS)—interactive radio–SMS—can be designed as a mixed methods approach for applied social research during COVID-19 and other crises in low and middle income countries. In the aftermath of a cholera outbreak in Somalia, ... more

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ESOMAR/GRBN Guideline for Researchers and Clients Involved in Primary Data Collection

ESOMAR (2021), 18 pp.

"This guideline describes the ethical responsibilities of researchers, regardless of the type of organisation in which they work, when engaged in primary data collection, that is, when collecting data from or about a data subject for the purpose of research. It includes quantitative and qualitative ... more

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Participatory Video for Two-Way Communication in Research for Development

Manon Koningstein, Shadi Azadegan

Action Research, volume 19, issue 2 (2021), pp. 218-236

"This paper presents the participatory video methodology as an effective tool to establish a two-way communication channel between researchers and marginalized communities. The discussion begins by describing the transition from one- to two-way communication in the research for development field, fo ... more

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Netnography Unlimited: Understanding Technoculture Using Qualitative Social Media Research

Robert V. Kozinets, Rossella Gambetti (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2021), xv, 325 pp.

"Shaped by academic fields, industries, national contexts, technologies and platforms, and languages and cultures, for over two decades netnography has impacted the research practices of scholars around the world. In this volume, thirty-two researchers present nineteen chapters that examine how they ... more

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Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook
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Kristoffer Bjärkefur, Luiza Cardoso de Andrade, Benjamin Daniels, Maria Jones

Washington, DC: World Bank (2021), xviii, 209 pp.

"Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook is intended to teach all users of development data how to handle data effectively, efficiently, and ethically. An empirical revolution has changed the face of development research over the last decade. Increasingly, researchers are ... more

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Transcribing Oral History

Teresa Bergen

New York: Routledge (2020), xix, 207 pp.

"Transcribing Oral History offers a comprehensive guide to the transcription of qualitative interviews, an often richly debated practice within oral history. Beginning with an introduction to the field and an overview of the many disciplines that conduct and transcribe interviews, the book goes on t ... more

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The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video
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Phillip Vannini (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 359 pp.

"Comprised of 31 chapters authored by some of the world's leading experts in their respective fields, the book's contributors synthesize existing literature, introduce the historical and conceptual dimensions of the field, illustrate innovative methodologies and techniques, survey traditional and ne ... more

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Doing Fieldwork in a Pandemic

Deborah Lupton (ed.)

[author] (2020), 39 pp.

"This document was initially directed at ways for how to turn fieldwork that was initially planned as using face-to-face methods into a more ‘hands-off’ mode. However, people have added useful material about ‘born digital’ research (content already generated on the internet by online interac ... more

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Going Digital: Web Data Collection Using Twitter as an Example

Nicole Schwitter, Ulf Liebe

Oxford: Oxfam (2020), 30 pp.

"These guidelines are published under the Going Digital series where we explore and share our learning in using new digital technologies in evaluation and research. In this fifth instalment of Going Digital, another form of digital data is explored: web data. The paper discusses how web data, in par ... more

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Indigenous Research Methodologies

Bagele Chilisa

Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 2nd ed. (2020), xxiv, 368 pp.

"Author Bagele Chilisa updates her groundbreaking textbook to give a new generation of scholars a crucial foundation in indigenous methods, methodologies, and epistemologies. Addressing the increasing emphasis in the classroom and in the field to sensitize researchers and students to diverse perspec ... more

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Evaluating Academic and Media Nongovernmental Organization Partnerships for Participatory Data Gathering

Emma Heywood, Beatrice Ivey, Sacha Meuter

International Journal of Market Research, volume 63, issue 1 (2020), pp. 43-57

"This article discusses participatory methods for data gathering in the context of a partnership between a Swiss-based media development organization, Fondation Hirondelle, and a research team at the University of Sheffield. In 2018–2019, the partnership conducted fieldwork which focused on the im ... more

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Remote Survey Toolkit: Prepared in Response to COVID-19

60_decibels (2020), 19 pp.

"For the past six years, we’ve been investing heavily in phone-based surveys to gather high-quality feedback and social performance data. Our belief has been that, when done correctly, phone-based phone surveys can get high-quality customer data at a fraction of the cost of traditional in-person s ... more

Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook Key Guides

The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video Deep Insights

Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook
Key Guides

The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video
Deep Insights