The book Análise dos Medias is a revised and updated re-edition of a work from 2012. It is organized in six chapters, preceded by an Introduction. The first chapter, "Theoretical Frameworks", is an epistemological chapter that places this field of knowledge within the scope of Media Studies. The second, "Drawing up a research on the media", describes the path of drawing up a research on the media, using as an example the journalistic coverage of the theme "political corruption" in Portugal. The third chapter, "Methods in Media Analysis", focuses on the methods used in empirical media research, with emphasis on content analysis and qualitative methods such as narrative analysis, semiotic analysis and discourse analysis. The fourth chapter "The Challenges of Social Media Analysis" aims at addressing the challenges that social media researchers face. In the fifth chapter, there is a brief conclusion of the frameworks, assumptions and paths inherent to Media Analysis, followed by the sixth and last chapter, which presents a commented bibliographical selection of the most relevant works. |