The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies, 7 Volume Set

Contents to Volume VII

Research Methods in Media Studies

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Contributors to Volume VII

General Editor's Acknowledgments

Media Studies: The Interdiscipline of the Present and the Future

Angharad N. Valdivia

Convergence, Globalization, Technological Development, and Interdisciplinarity in a Fast-Evolving World: The Formidable Question of Method

Fabienne Darling-Wolf

PART 1 SETTING UP THE STAGE

1 Media Research Paradigms: Conceptual Distinctions, Continuing Divisions

Slavko Splichal and Peter Dahlgren

2 The Challenge of Media Research Ethics

Kevin Healey

PART 2 WORKING WITH PEOPLE

3 Doing Survey Research in Media Studies

Suman Mishra

4 Beyond the Qualitative/Quantitative “Divide”: Reflections on the Utility and Challenges of Q Methodology for Media Researchers

Carolyn Michelle and Charles H. Davis

5 The Interview: A Process of Qualitative Inquiry

Sue Robinson

6 Oral History Interviews: Advantages and Challenges of Employing Oral History Interviewing as Part of a Research Project

Mike Conway

7 Memories of Films and Cinema-Going in Monterrey, Mexico: A Critique and Review of In-Depth Interviews as a Methodological Strategy in Audience Studies

Lorena Frankenberg and José Carlos Lozano

8 Conducting Media Ethnographies in Africa

Tanja Bosch

9 Autoethnography in Media Studies: Digitalization of Television in Finland, or Carrying Home Cardboard Boxes

Johanna Uotinen

10 The Basics of Experimental Research in Media Studies

Glenn Leshner

11 Between-Subjects Experimental Design and ...