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A favourite with both students and lecturers, How to Do Media and Cultural Studies provides readers with all the knowledge and practical expertise they need to carry out their project or dissertation. Giving them hands-on guidance on managing the whole process, Jane Stokes:
- Shows students how to identify a topic and create a research question
- Guides them through the research process, from getting started through to writing-up
- Explores a range a case studies, showing how methods have been applied by others
Expanded and updated throughout, this
3rd edition now includes:
- Increased coverage of digital media, social media and internet research
- More practical exercises to help you tie media and cultural theory to your work
- New guidance on understanding research ethics
- New guidance on mixing and combining methods
How to Do Media and Cultural Studies has inspired thousands of students and researchers to understand why studying media texts, industries and audiences is so important. It is an ideal companion for anyone conducting a research project.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I: Thinking: Theory and practice
Chapter 1: Addressing epistemology: How do we know anything about anything?
Chapter 2: Why do we do media and cultural studies?
Part II: Practicalities: Managing your research
Chapter 3: Getting started
Chapter 4: Managing the research process
Chapter 5: Getting finished
Part III: Methods and approaches to research
Chapter 6: Researching texts: Approaches to analysing media and cultural content
Chapter 7: Researching the creative industries: Studying organisations, institutions and producers
Chapter 8: Researching audiences: Who uses media and culture? How and Why?
Chapter 9: Research in context: Exploring mixed methods and research practice
Chapter 10: Conclusion
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Jane Stokes is currently Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of East London and has taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury, London South Bank University and London Metropolitan University.
Jane’s interest in the media can be traced back to her days working on the student television station while studying English Literature at Sussex University. She has an MA in Film and Television Studies from the University of Westminster where Jane began teaching Media Studies in 1984. She moved to Los Angeles in 1989 to study for a PhD in Communication Theory and Research at the Annenberg School of Communication, USC. Jane has made research methods a teaching specialism, blending American and European approaches to communication, media and cultural studies.
Zusammenfassung
The third edition of the bestselling student guide to doing media and cultural studies research provides all the knowledge and practical expertise needed to carry out a project or dissertation.
Bericht
This no nonsense, up-to-the-moment text cuts-to the-chase about how to conduct a research study. Jane Stokes effortlessly and expertly takes the reader by the hand and walks them through the principles, methods and practices of executing 'good' media and cultural studies. If any book can relieve anxieties about actually doing research this is it. Accessible, informed, incredibly useful. Professor Simon Cottle
