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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480162103321

Autore

Berger Arthur Asa <1933->

Titolo

Media research techniques [[electronic resource] /] / Arthur Asa Berger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, 1998

ISBN

1-322-41922-1

0-7619-1536-2

1-4522-5126-6

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Disciplina

302.23072

Soggetti

Mass media - Research - Methodology

Mass media - 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 bibliographical references (p. 167-168) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Part I - Research Projects; Chapter 1 - Guided Research Projects; Chapter 2 - Research Logs; Chapter 3 - Content Analysis: Newspaper Comics Pages; Chapter 4 - Survey Interviews: Media Utilization; Chapter 5 - Social Roles: Television Soap Opera Characters; Chapter 6 - Depth Interviews: Favorite Singers and Recordings; Chapter 7 - Rhetorical Analysis: Magazine Advertisements; Chapter 8 - Library Research: Audiences of Radio Talk Shows; Chapter 9 - Focus Groups: Reasons for Attending Films; Chapter 10 - Experiments: Humor

Chapter 11 - Participant Observation: Video Game PlayersChapter 12 - Historical Research: Images of Shopping Malls in the Popular Press; Chapter 13 - Comparative Analysis: Images of Disneyland (and Disney World) in the American Popular and Scholarly Press; Part II - Writing and Thinking; Chapter 14 - Writing with Style; Chapter 15 - Avoiding Common Writing Errors; Chapter 16 - Avoiding Common Reasoning Errors; Chapter 17 - Writing a Research Report; References; Name Index; Subject Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

With new chapters on experimentation, historical research comparative research and participant observation, this second edition of Media Research Techniques will enable beginners to plan and implement



research in communications studies.