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Research Methods for Memory Studies
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2013), vi, 256 pp.
"This guide provides students and researchers with a clear set of outlines and discussions of particular methods of research in memory studies. It offers not only expert appraisals of a range of techniques, approaches and perspectives in memory studies, but also focuses on key questions of methodolo
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Handbuch standardisierte Erhebungsverfahren in der Kommunikationswissenschaft
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2013), 397 pp.
Running Randomized Evaluations: A Practical Guide
Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press (2013), x, 467 pp.
This book provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs. Drawing on the experience of researchers at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which has run hundreds of such evaluations in dozens of countries throughout the world, it offer
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Monitoring and Evaluation of Peacebuilding: The Role of New Media
Geneva Peacebuilding Platform (2013), 38 pp.
"Overall, this paper finds that peacebuilding practitioners have much to learn in terms of new media use from their humanitarian and development colleagues. New media is increasingly and often successfully used for needs assessments and beneficiary communication but only very few examples exist in w
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Participatory Action Research: Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2013), xxi, 469 pp.
"In this book, the authors propose innovative strategies for engaged inquiry building on insights from many disciplines and lessons from the history of Participatory Action Research (PAR), including French psychosociology. The ongoing evolution of PAR has had a lasting legacy in fields ranging from
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Participatory Visual and Digital Methods
London, New York: Routledge (2013), 227 pp.
"Gubrium and Harper describe how visual and digital methodologies can contribute to a participatory, public-engaged ethnography. These methods can change the traditional relationship between academic researchers and the community, building one that is more accessible, inclusive, and visually appeali
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Handbook of Survey Methodology for the Social Sciences
New York: Springer (2012), 520 pp.
"Surveys enjoy great ubiquity among data collection methods in social research: they are flexible in questioning techniques, in the amount of questions asked, in the topics covered, and in the various ways of interactions with respondents. Surveys are also the preferred method by many researchers in
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Practical Community Radio Audience Measurement
In: Community Radio in the Twenty-First Century
Oxford; Bern; Berlin et al.: Peter Lang (2012), pp. 347-366
"For community radio stations, one important gauge of relevance is the Popularity of their programming outputs, as without evidence of this it is difficult to justify providing access to scarce broadcast frequency resources. In part, the popularity ofprogramming outputs can be assessed through varia
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Qualitative Content Analysis in Practice
London et al.: Sage (2012), viii, 272 pp.
"This book takes students step-by-step through the process of doing qualitative content analysis. Margrit Schreier show how to: create a coding frame; segment the material; try out the coding frame; evaluate the trial coding and then carry out the main coding; and consider what comes next. She also
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The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis
London; New York: Routledge (2012), xxvi, 681 pp.
"The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis covers the major approaches to Discourse Analysis from Critical Discourse Analysis to Multimodal Discourse Analysis and their applications in key educational and institutional settings. The handbook is divided into six sections: Approaches to Discourse A
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Content Analysis: Can Shared Indicators Improve Monitoring and Evaluation?
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 24 pp.
National Web Studies: Mapping Iran Online
Philadelphia: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2012), 25 pp.
"Instead of defining a priori the types of websites to be included in a national web, the approach put forward here makes use of web devices (platforms and engines) that purport to provide (ranked) lists of URLs relevant to a particular country. Once gathered in such a manner, the websites are studi
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Measuring Community Radio Audiences
In: Radio Evolution: Conference Proceedings
Braga: University of Minho, Communication and Society Research Centre (2012), pp. 377-386
"This paper will use the example of the approach taken by UK Community Radio station, 'Future Radio' to obtain both quantitative data primarily through street surveys and qualitative data through on-line questionnaires, exploring why the station felt such research to be both necessary and beneficial
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Using Social Media to Gauge Iranian Public Opinion and Mood After the 2009 Election
Santa Monica, Calif. et al.: RAND Corporation (2012), xxi, 86 pp.
"This report presents an analysis of Iranian public opinion and mood as expressed over Twitter in the nine months following the election. The research represents an initial case study of a novel methodology developed to analyze politically oriented social media content. In addition to policy-relevan
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Studienhandbuch Filmanalyse: Ästhetik und Dramaturgie des Spielfilms
Paderborn: Fink (2012), 345 pp.
"Dieses Studienhandbuch stellt in kompakter Form das komplette Instrumentarium der Filmanalyse vor. Systematisch werden Filmgeschichte, Filmtheorie und das Zeichensystem des Films erläutert und durch Beispiele aus mehr als 100 Jahren Filmgeschichte veranschaulicht. Dabei werden auch neueste Entwick
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The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis
London et al.: Sage (2011), xvi, 622 pp.
"This sparkling Handbook offers an unrivalled resource for those engaged in the cutting edge field of social network analysis. Systematically, it introduces readers to the key concepts, substantive topics, central methods and prime debates. Among the specific areas covered are: network theory; inter
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Acerca del cine como medio expresivo
Valparaíso: Editorial Universidad de Valparaíso (2011), 252 pp.
Qualitative Sozialforschung: Eine Einführung
Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 4. Aufl. der vollst. überarb. und erw. Neuausg. 2007 (2011), 617 pp.
"Qualitative Sozialforschung findet immer weitere Verbreitung und differenziert sich immer stärker in Ansätzen und Methoden. Dieses Buch führt entlang des Forschungsprozesses in die theoretischen Grundlagen, die methodischen Ansätze und ihre Anwendung ein. Vorgestellt werden die wichtigsten Meth
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