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Media Literacy Training & Research
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Radio Music
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People with Disabilities (General)
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Delphi Method
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Digital Sources
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Empirical Studies
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Information Analysis
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Contextual Analysis
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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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Knowing and Researching Your Audience

In: Managing Radio
Brian Lister; Caroline Mitchell; Tony O'Shea
Sedgefield: Sound Concepts (2010), pp. 63-81
"In this chapter we outline the principles and techniques of audience research including qualitative and quantitative methods and techniques and how to understand and interpret Rajar (Radio Joint Audience Research Limited) surveys. We look at some critical perspectives on audience research methodolo ... more
"Audience research should be an essential part of every broadcasting venture. However, many non-Commercial radio stations hardly do audience research. Often this is due to a lack of human resources and to a large extent also a lack of understanding and awareness of the nature, benefit, and role of a ... more

Audience Research for Campus Radio Stations

Lagos; Dakar Ponty (SN): Institute for Media and Society (IMS);Panos West Africa (2010), 81 pp.

Media Talk: Conversation Analysis and the Study of Broadcasting

Maidenhead; New York: Open University Press (2010), xii, 185 pp.
"Media Talk" provides an accessible introduction to the analysis of the spoken word by examining linguistic and discursive aspects of broadcast media. Beginning with the observation that talk is central to all genres of radio and television, Ian Hutchby examines the forms of speech used by broadcast ... more
"Drawing together the new techniques available to the market researcher into a single reference, The Handbook of Online and Social Media Research explores how these innovations are being used by the leaders in the field. This groundbreaking reference examines why traditional research is broken, both ... more

Communication Research: Techniques, Methods and Applications

Cape Town: Juta, 2nd ed. (2009), 460 pp.

L'audience

Paris: CNRS Editions (2009), 184 pp.
"La mesure d'audience est au centre de la télévision, au cœur de la relation entre le public et l'offre de programmes. Pour certains, elle constitue un puissant système de consultation du public, exprimant sa demande, sa satisfaction ; pour d'autres, elle n'est qu'un opérateur du marché public ... more
"This article makes a case for using participatory communication in research. It introduces participatory communication as a citizen-led approach to both creating and expressing knowledge; within research this means that researchers are not simply responsible for generating information and communica ... more
"The Routledge Handbook of Applied Communication Research provides a state-of-the-art review of communication scholarship that addresses real-world concerns, issues, and problems. This comprehensive examination of applied communication research, including its foundations, research methods employed, ... more
"FUNREDES and Union Latine have designed an original research method to measure linguistic diversity in cyberspace. The aim was to use search engines and a sample of word-concepts to measure the proportionate presence of these concepts in their various linguistic equivalences (in Latin languages, En ... more

Arab News and Conflict: A Multidisciplinary Discourse Study

Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company (2009), 238 pp.
"Drawing on socio-political-linguistic approaches combined with real-case studies, the author offers a unique discourse analysis model for analysing politically sensitive language in the media. The focus in this study is on the Arab media discourse in times of conflict with Israel and the US, spanni ... more

The Guide to Researching Audiences: Concise Edition

Guildford, Surrey: JISC;Strategic Content Alliance;Curtis+Cartwright Consulting (2009), 26 pp.
"This is the 'concise edition' of 'The Guide to Researching Audiences'. It is a shorter version of the main Guide, designed to provide an easily accessible summary of the key principles of audience research and some practical information. The full version of the Guide contains more detailed informat ... more