Martin W Bauer & George D. Gaskell 
Qualitative Researching with Text, Image and Sound [EPUB ebook] 
A Practical Handbook for Social Research

`This excellent text will introduce advanced students – and remind senior researchers – of the availability of a broad range of techniques available for the systematic analysis of social data that is not numeric. It makes the key point that neither quantitative nor qualitative methods are interpretive and at the same time demonstrates once and for all that neither a constructivist perspective nor a qualitative approach needs to imply abandonment of rigor. That the chapters are written by different authors makes possible a depth of expertise within each that is unusually strong′ –
Susanna Hornig Priest, Texas A&M University; Author of `Doing Media Research′

Qualitative Researching with Text, Image and Sound offers a unique resource for today′s social researcher. This practical handbook provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to a broad range of research methods with the objective of clarifying procedures, good practice and public accountability.

Following an introduction which discusses quality and quantity, and how these relate to issues of representation and knowledge interests in social research, the book is organized into four parts:

· Part I covers different ways of collecting data and different types of data relating to text, image and sound: corpus construction, individual and group interviewing, narrative and episodic interviewing, video and film, and bemetology.

· Part II introduces the main analytic approaches for text, image and sound: classical content analysis, argumentation, discourse, conversation analysis, rhetoric, semiotics, analysis of moving images, and of noise and music – each includes an introduction with examples and step-by-step advice on how to do it.

· Part III covers computer-assisted analysis – including computer-assisted qualitative data analysis and key-word-in-context analysis.

· Part IV addresses issues of good practice, looking at problems and fallacies in interpretation and develops quality criteria for qualitative research.

This book provides researchers with the skills and knowledge to make the appropriate choices between different methods, types of data, and analytic procedures, and gives examples and criteria of good practice for each one. It will be essential reading for students and researchers across the social sciences.

قائمة المحتويات

Quality, Quantity and Knowledge Interests – Martin W Bauer, George Gaskell and N C Allum

Avoiding Confusions

PART ONE: CONSTRUCTING A RESEARCH CORPUS

Corpus Construction – Martin W Bauer and Bas Aarts

A Principle for Qualitative Data Collection

Individual and Group Interviewing – George Gaskell

Narrative Interviewing – Sandra Jovchelovitch and Martin W Bauer

Episodic Interviewing – Uwe Flick

Video, Film and Photographs as Research Documents – Peter Loizos

Betemology – G Fassnacht

Towards Continous (Self) Observation and Personality Assessment

PART TWO: ANALYTIC APPROACHES FOR TEXT, IMAGE AND SOUND

Classical Content Analysis – Martin W Bauer

A Review

Argumentation Analysis – M Liakopoulos

Discourse Analysis – Rosalind Gill

Analysis of Conversation and Talk – Greg Myers

Rhetorical Analysis – Joan Leach

Semiotic Analysis of Still Images – Gemma Penn

Analysis of Moving Images – Diana Rose

Analyzing Noise and Music as Social Data – Martin W Bauer

PART THREE: COMPUTER ASSISTANCE

Computer-Assisted Analysis – Udo Kelle

Coding and Indexing

Keyword-in-Context – Nicole Kronberger and Wolfgang Wagner

Statistical Analysis of Text Features

PART FOUR: ISSUES OF GOOD PRACTICE

Fallacies in Interpretating Historical and Social Data – Robert W D Boyce

Towards Public Accountability – George Gaskell and Martin W Bauer

Beyond Sampling, Reliability and Validity

عن المؤلف

Expert and lay representations of risk; social and ethical implications of biotechnology; qualitative research methods; risk and trust; science in society and society in science; beliefs and attitudes