1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457338903321

Autore

Davies Máire Messenger

Titolo

Practical research methods for media and cultural studies [[electronic resource] ] : making people count / / Maire Messenger Davies and Nick Mosdell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-280-53836-8

9786610538362

0-7486-2718-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MosdellNick

Disciplina

001.3072

Soggetti

Humanities - Research - Methodology

Social sciences - Research

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; Contents; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 What is Your Research Question?; CHAPTER 3 Choosing a Method; CHAPTER 4 Sampling; CHAPTER 5 The Practicalities; CHAPTER 6 Instrument Design: The Questionnaire; CHAPTER 7 Content Analysis; CHAPTER 8 Piloting; CHAPTER 9 Special Audiences – Work with Children; CHAPTER 10 Data Analysis; CHAPTER 11 Presenting Results; CHAPTER 12 Information for Teachers; CHAPTER 13 Conclusion and Summary; Bibliography and References; APPENDICES; 1. Graphs; 2. Multiple Responses; 3. Example SPSS Exercise; 4. Questionnaire Design Guide; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Deals with the process of conducting research in humanities, with reference to media and culture, from the planning stage, through the data gathering, to the analysis and interpretation of results. This book aims to show how the choice of research topic can be refined into a manageable research question and how the methodologies can be applied.



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Record Nr.

UNISA996204079803316

Titolo

Public value of the humanities / / edited by Jonathan Bate

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2011

ISBN

1-84966-471-4

1-84966-063-8

1-283-29443-5

9786613294432

1-84966-424-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 pages) : ilustrations

Collana

WISH list

Disciplina

001.3072

Soggetti

Humanities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Learning from the past -- part 2. Looking around us -- part 3. Informing policy -- part 4. Using words, thinking hard.

Sommario/riassunto

"Recession is a time for asking fundamental questions about value. At a time when governments are being forced to make swingeing savings in public expenditure, why should they continue to invest public money funding research into ancient Greek tragedy, literary value, philosophical conundrums or the aesthetics of design? Does such research deliver 'value for money' and 'public benefit'? Such questions have become especially pertinent in the UK in recent years, in the context of the drive by government to instrumentalize research across the disciplines and the prominence of discussions about 'economic impact' and 'knowledge transfer'. In this book a group of distinguished humanities researchers, all working in Britain, but publishing research of international importance, reflect on the public value of their discipline, using particular research projects as case-studies. Their essays are passionate, sometimes polemical, often witty and consistently thought-provoking, covering a range of humanities disciplines from theology to architecture and from media studies to anthropology."--Bloomsbury Publishing.