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Ethnographic Films
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Film Research Methods
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Storytelling
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Media Monitoring, Media Observatories
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Digital Humanities
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Narratives, Narrative Structures
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Television Entertainment, Television Entertainment Programmes
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Radio Research Methods
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Television Studies & Research
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Network Analysis
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Ethnographic Action Research
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Community Radios
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Cultural Studies
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Development Planning
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Websites
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Artificial Intelligence
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Poverty & Poverty Reduction
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Education and Communication / Media
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Television Fiction
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Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Indicators
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Communication Research Design
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Audiovisual Language
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Access to Internet & Digital Communications
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Open Data
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Advertising Effects & Impact
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Advertising Literacy
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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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People with Disabilities: Advocacy & Empowerment
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Agricultural Development & Policies
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Forestry, Deforestation, Forest Protection
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Peasants / Farmers & Communication
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Audience Research in Media Assistance
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Audience Research Under Difficult Conditions
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Child Protection, Protection of Minors
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Christian Communication
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Film Dramaturgy
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Films
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Community Mapping
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Community Media Research, Community Communication Research
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Community Radio & Gender
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Groups, Group Communication, Group Development
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Conflict Reporting, Armed Conflict Reporting
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Hate Speech, Hate Speech in Social Media
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Internet / ICTs and Conflicts
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Trauma: Media Representation & Reporting
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War Reporting
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Contents of Media
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Aesthetics in Media & Communication
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Content Analysis: Photos, Illustrations, Images
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Meaning
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Media Criticism
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Radio Language & Moderation
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Digital Anthropology, Cyberanthropology
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Collective Memory & Media, Media Representation of History
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Nonprofit Organizations, NGOs
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Development Communication Projects: Case Studies
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
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Development Communication, Communication for Development (C4D)
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Communication for Social Change
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Development Communication Research
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Development Communication Tools & Methods
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Rural Communication for Development
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Social Change & Media / Communication
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Visual Aids for Development
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Algorithms & Big Data
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Data Governance, Data Justice, Data Sovereignty
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Data Journalism, Computer-Assisted Investigative Reporting
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Digital Healthcare & Information, Mobile Health, E-Health, Telemedicine
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Digital Media Landscapes
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Online Communication
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Digital Journalism, Online Journalism
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Online News
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Content Moderation & Regulation: Social Media
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Facebook
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Wikipedia
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Digitalization, Digital Transformation
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Foreigners: Media Representation
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Living Conditions
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Solar Energy, Renewable Energy
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Gaming, Video Games
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Television Serials
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Climate Change Communication, Climate Journalism
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Image Ethics, Ethics in Photojournalism
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Bias in News Media
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Evaluation: Communication & Media
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Information Products & Services: Evaluation, Monitoring, Impact Assessment
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Media Assistance: Evaluation, Monitoring, Impact Assessment
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence: Media Representation & Reporting
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Gender Norms & Roles
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Gender Relations
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Gender Representation & Stereotypes in the Media
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Food / Nutrition Communication & Media Representation
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Health Campaigns: Message Design
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HIV / AIDS Communication
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Medicines, Medical Drugs
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Suicide Reporting & Media Representation
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Indigenous Communication
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Globalisation of Media
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Media Assistance: Journalism Education & Training
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Safety of Journalists, Safety Risks of Media Workers
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News Reception
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Translations & Translating
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Local Radios, Local Radio Programmes
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Media Assistance: Radio
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Media Assistance Research
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Communication Processes
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Organizational Communication, Institutional Communication
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Stereotypes in Media & Communication
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Trust Building: Role of Communication & Media
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Media & Communication Policies
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Media Literacy Training & Research
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Media System Analyses & Typologies
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Radio Landscapes
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Cost-Benefit-Analysis, Cost-Effectiveness, Efficiency
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Organisational Development & Capacity Building
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Radio Music
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People with Disabilities (General)
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Social Photography
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Political Marketing
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Public Opinion
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Public Spheres
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Public Service Broadcasting
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Radio Dramas, Radio Soap Operas, Radio Fiction
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Radio Reception, Radio Psychology, Radio Effects
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Radio Liberty
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University Radios
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Media Effects
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Media Psychology, Communication Psychology
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Parasocial Interaction
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Everyday Life
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Memory, Memorizing
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Perception, Cognition & Comprehension
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Visual Perception, Visual Reception
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Applied Communication Research
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Communication & Media Indicators
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Causal Analysis, Causal Chain Analysis
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Delphi Method
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Digital Sources
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Empirical Studies
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Social Indicators
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Information Analysis
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Contextual Analysis
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Low-Budget Research
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Mixed Research Methods
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Appreciative Inquiry (Qualitative Research Method)
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Expert Panels
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Interviewing (Journalistic Genre)
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Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI)
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Visual Research Methods (Photography, Video et al.)
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Research Results
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Secondary Data Sources
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Phone-Based Surveys
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Science Communication & Research Dissemination
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Networks & Networking
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SMS
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Television
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Media Literacy and Media Education Research Methods: A Handbook
London; New York: Routledge (2024), x, 332 pp.
"This handbook interrogates the foundations of media literacy and media education research from a methodological standpoint. It provides a detailed, illustrated overview of key methods used in the study of media literacy and media education. Further, it reveals the diversity of this research field a
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Will It Be Different If I Give It Another Name? Methodologic Notes from Research with Riverside Communities in the Amazon Forest (Brazil and Ecuador)
Forum for Development Studies (2024), 24 pp.
"What makes a piece of research decolonial? Do participatory or co-creative approaches make research participatory and co-creative? These reflections are raised in this article, which looks back at methodological choices made and adapted during a three-year study with riverside communities in the Am
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Images and indicators: Mixing participatory methods to build inclusive rigour
Action Research, volume 22, issue 2 (2024), pp. 35-154
"Participatory methods seek to counter the extractive nature of mainstream research methods by putting control into the hands of research subjects. But participation itself does not guarantee against extraction. There is a tension between the desire for researcher-control and the prerogative of comm
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Open Source Investigation Toolkit
Key Guidance
Bellingcat (2024)
"More than 80 percent of open source researchers that participated in two Bellingcat surveys indicated that finding the right tools can be challenging. This is where our new Online Investigations Toolkit comes in: it not only helps you discover tools in categories like satellite imagery and maps, so
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Reaching Hard-To-Reach Communities: Using WhatsApp to Give Conflict-Affected Audiences a Voice
International Journal of Social Research Methodology, volume 27, issue 1 (2024), pp. 107-121
"This article provides an original and timely contribution to current cutting-edge methodological debates by discussing the ongoing need to ensure communities in zones which are inaccessible through war, conflict or disease still have a voice and are not side-lined. As seen during Covid-19, traditio
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Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people’s journeys
Qualitative Research, volume 24, issue 5 (2024), pp. 1302-1311
"This research note introduces the experience of using ‘timelines’ as a visual research method during online interviewing. It does so through a series of questions and answers that guide the reader through an exploration, understanding of and reflection on the method. This qualitative approach w
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Manual para el uso de métodos digitales en proyectos de humanidades
GUMELAB (2024), 129 pp.
Qualitative Methods in Communication and Media
New York: Oxford University Press (2024), xi, 217 pp.
"Qualitative Methods in Media and Communication offers a learning-centered guide to designing, conducting, and evaluating qualitative communication and media research methods. Drawing upon years of teaching qualitative research methods, Sandra L. Faulkner and Joshua D. Atkinson introduce and unpack
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Applied communication research methods: Getting started as a researcher
New York; London: Routledge, 3rd ed. (2024), xvii, 316 pp.
"This third edition is again a practical introduction to communication research methods, foregrounding the role research plays in communication and media industry careers. Covering major methodologies such as surveys, experiments, focus groups, in-depth interviews, content analysis, and others, the
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Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials
Los Angeles: Sage, 5th ed. (2023), xv, 454 pp.
"Whatever level of experience you have, this classic text will provide you with the key skills you need to complete a visual methods research project, understand the rationale behind each step, and engage with the contexts and power relations that shape our interpretation of visual images. With a cl
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Film- und Fernsehanalyse
München: UVK, 4. überarb. und erw. Aufl. (2023), 486 pp.
"Die Rezeption von Filmen und Fernsehsendungen ist sowohl vom Wissen und den Emotionen der Zuschauer:innen als auch von sozialen Kontexten abhängig. Es reicht daher nicht aus, die "Sprache" von Film und Fernsehen zu analysieren, sondern es müssen auch die Form, die Gestaltung, die Dramaturgie und
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Digital platforms as socio-cultural artifacts: Developing digital methods for cultural research
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 9 (2023), pp. 1733-1755
"Social media platforms are increasingly looked at as means to investigate social phenomena like collective events, issues or causes. Digital methods – techniques exclusively focused on online data and shaped by the environment hosting these data – have become part and parcel of these investigat
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Mixing Methods: Practical Insights from the Humanities in the Digital Age
Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press;transcript (2023), 270 pp.
"The digital transformation is accompanied by two simultaneous processes: digital humanities challenging the humanities, their theories, methodologies and disciplinary identities and pushing computer science to get involved in new fields. But how can qualitative and quantitative methods be usefully
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How to Design, Implement, and Analyse a Survey
Glos: Edward Elgar Publishing (2023), vi, 162 pp.
Guidance for Generative AI in Education and Research
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 44 pp.
To Know is to Compare: Studying Social Media Across Nations, Media, and Platforms
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2023), x, 212 pp.
"The authors argue that scholarship on social media has been limited by an over-reliance on single country studies that focus on one platform at a time, without considering the ties between platforms and other media. To overcome these limitations, the authors propose that social media are better und
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Challenges and Perspectives of Hate Speech Research
Top Insights
Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Media and Communication Studies (2023), 482 pp.
"This book is the result of a conference that could not take place. It is a collection of 26 texts that address and discuss the latest developments in international hate speech research from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. This includes case studies from Brazil, Lebanon, Poland, Nigeria,
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Revealing Media Bias in News Articles: NLP Techniques for Automated Frame Analysis
Cham: Springer (2023), xiii, 238 pp.
"This open access book presents an interdisciplinary approach to reveal biases in English news articles reporting on a given political event. The approach named person-oriented framing analysis identifies the coverage's different perspectives on the event by assessing how articles portray the person
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A systematic review of photovoice research methods with people with intellectual disabilities
Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, volume 36, issue 4 (2023), pp. 1-14
"Photovoice is an arts-based participatory action research methodology that is growing in popularity. Our aim was to systematically review photovoice research with people with intellectual disabilities to describe the current'state of the art' and identify areas for further methodological considerat
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Audience Research Toolkit
Melbourne: Creative Victoria (2023)
"Developed with expert advice from market research agency Patternmakers and digital agency Thirst, together with considerable input from several small arts organisations who were involved throughout the design process, the Audience Research Toolkit is a free online resource for anyone who’s new to
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