Title: Researching Communications: A Practical Guide to Methods in Media and Cultural Analysis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication Date: 2021
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1501316923
ISBN 13: 9781501316920
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 3rd Edition
Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

Undergraduate and postgraduate media and communication students will find Researching Communications an invaluable resource at all stages of their course.

About the Authors

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).

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.

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).

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