The first edition was praised for being delightful, engaging, readable, and well-organized. Now, once again, Arthur Asa Berger continues the tradition of providing students with a clearly written, user-friendly, hands-on guide to media research techniques with the long-awaited second edition of his best-selling classic
Media Research Techniques.
Leading the reader through a number of specially designed research projects (such as content analysis, surveys, focus groups, and in-depth interviews), he presents an array of interesting and practical assignments. In response to suggestions from faithful users of the first edition, Berger has added new chapters in the following areas:
- Experimentation
- Historical Research
- Comparative Research
- Participant Observation
This handy guide can be used in conjunction with texts on research methodology, or it can stand alone and be used in courses dealing with such topics as media, popular arts, and American culture and society. Practical and concise, Media Research Techniques, Second Edition is an essential tool for everyone in communication, journalism, written communication, methodology/research/gaming, and cultural studies.
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PART ONE: RESEARCH PROJECTS
Guided Research Projects
Research Logs
Content Analysis
Newspaper Comics Pages
Survey Interviews
Media Utilization
Social Roles
Television Soap Opera Characters
Depth Interviews
Favorite Singers and Recordings
Rhetorical Analysis
Magazine Advertisements
Library Research
Audiences of Radio Talk Shows
Focus Groups
Reasons for Attending Films
Experiments
Humor
Participant Observation
Video Game Players
Historical Research
Images of Shopping Malls in the Popular Press
Comparative Analysis
Images of Disneyland (and Disneyworld) in the American Popular and Scholarly Press
PART TWO: WRITING AND THINKING
Writing with Style
Avoiding Common Writing Errors
Avoiding Common Reasoning Errors
Writing a Research Report
Giới thiệu về tác giả
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.
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