"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, ... giving detailed examples of research analysis and practical step-by-step guidance in clear language. Written by highly regarded experts in the field, the third edition includes new sections on social media analysis, digital research methods and comparative research, as well as updated case studies, international examples and details of recent developments in media and communication studies." (Publisher description) more

"An investigation of the production and content of broadcast news in Nigeria, Sweden and Ireland to shed light on two questions: What picture of the world is provided by broadcast news, and how is this picture related to the routine demands of news production in broadcasting organizations? Answers, ... which involve discussions about the social role of journalism, the ideological nature of news, and the possibility of change, indicate that news is shaped by a variety of organizational, cultural, economic and normative restreints. The authors find that news is more nearly a reflection of the forces that produce it than of the events and processes in social reality." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 628) more