Media Research Techniques

Media Research Techniques

by Arthur A Berger (Author), Arthur A Berger (Author)

Synopsis

This readable, well-organized text is a beginner's guide to undertaking applied or practical research in media studies. The book has an introduction to research, a presentation of different research techniques and a section on writing up research.

Instructors will appreciate the sampling of interesting assignments and practical exercises in content analysis, survey interview, social roles, depth interview, rhetorical analyses and library research, together with analyses of their advantages and disadvantages. Examples are taken from newspapers, television, songs and records, comics, advertisements and radio.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Edition: 2
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Published: 11 Apr 1991

ISBN 10: 0803941803
ISBN 13: 9780803941809

Author Bio
Arthur Asa Berger is Professor Emeritus of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University, where he taught between 1965 and 2003. He has published more than 100 articles, numerous book reviews, and more than 60 books. Among his latest books are the third edition of Media and Communication Research Methods: An Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (2013), The Academic Writer's Toolkit: A User's Manual (2008), What Objects Mean: An Introduction to Material Culture (2009), Bali Tourism (2013), Tourism in Japan: An Ethno-Semiotic Analysis (2010), The Culture Theorist's Book of Quotations (2010), and The Objects of Our Affection: Semiotics and Consumer Culture (2010). He has also written a number of academic mysteries such as Durkheim is Dead: Sherlock Holmes is Introduced to Sociological Theory (2003) and Mistake in Identity: A Cultural Studies Murder Mystery (2005). His books have been translated into eight languages and thirteen of his books have been translated into Chinese.