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Towards a praxis-based media and journalism research
This volume brings together current scholarly debates about how to bridge the gap between theory and practice in media and journalism research. Drawing on work from media scholars and media practitioners that focuses on how both sides can work together for the good of society, Towards a Praxis-based Media and Journalism Research is the first collection to examine how theory and practice can be combined for positive effect. The result will lay important groundwork for scholarship on this new and increasingly important idea in media and communication studies.
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The Lab Book
An important new approach to the study of laboratories,
presenting a practical method for understanding labs in all walks
of life From the \"Big Science\" of Bell Laboratories to the
esoteric world of séance chambers to university media labs to
neighborhood makerspaces, places we call \"labs\" are everywhere-but
how exactly do we account for the wide variety of ways that they
produce knowledge? More than imitations of science and engineering
labs, many contemporary labs are hybrid forms that require a new
methodological and theoretical toolkit to describe. The Lab
Book investigates these vital, creative spaces, presenting
readers with the concept of the \"hybrid lab\" and offering an
extended-and rare-critical investigation of how labs have
proliferated throughout culture.
Organized by interpretive categories such as space,
infrastructure, and imaginaries, The Lab Book uses both historical
and contemporary examples to show how laboratories have become
fundamentally connected to changes in the contemporary university.
Its wide reach includes institutions like the MIT Media Lab, the
Tuskegee Institute's Jesup Wagon, ACTLab, and the Media
Archaeological Fundus. The authors cover topics such as the
evolution and delineation of lab-based communities, how labs' tools
and technologies contribute to defining their space, and a glossary
of key hybrid lab techniques.
Providing rich historical breadth and depth, The Lab
Book brings into focus a critical, but often misunderstood,
aspect of the contemporary arts and humanities.
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Exploring media research : theories, practice, and purpose
Donald Trump's use of Twitter, the 'Angelina Effect', social media mourning, cyber-bullying: in today's media environment; evidence of media influence is all around us. As such, good media research is more important than ever, and crucially, is something everyone can and should do. In Exploring Media Research, Andy Ruddock explains that the only way to learn or teach about media research is to do it. Carefully balancing theory and practice, he demystifies the process, showing you don't need huge amounts of time or money to do meaningful media analysis. This book: explains how principles of motivation, causation, generalizability, and ethics apply to media research; outlines different forms of 'reality' created by media stories, media users, and the blending of media and interpersonal communication; identifies key areas of research, from media industries, content and events to regulation, policy and audiences; demonstrates how key concepts translate into actual research methods, from archival and field research to the analysis of 'big data' and brings theory to life throughout with a range contemporary case studies. This is a thoughtful, pragmatic approach to both gathering and analyzing media data, and so making sense of the chaotic, complex, compelling world of media influence in the 21st century.
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The Evolution of Objective and Interpretative Journalism in the Western Press
A content analysis of 2,422 political news stories from national and regional newspapers examines the different ways in which the hard-news paradigm has been adopted in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy between the 1960s and 2000s. The study traces how hard news practices diffused differently across borders, and how they have been combined with elements of interpretation and opinion over time. This process has led to the formation of three distinct news cultures. Conclusions are drawn for a broader understanding of the evolution of news journalism and the appropriate classification of Western media systems.
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Cognitive media theory
\"The question of what bearing scientific inquiry has upon the humanities is the subject of an important, ongoing debate in film and media studies. In the latest addition to the AFI Film Readers series, Cognitive Media Theory presents a case that the theorization of film and media spectatorship needs to take current empirical research in the sciences into consideration, and to show how empirical research informs film and media studies. Exploring topics that range from color perception and moral engagement to our cognitive response to humor, Cognitive Media Theory offers film and media scholars and advanced students an introduction to current cognitive theory through original essays that critically reflect upon the current state of the field. Contributors address key topics, genres, and media forms, and present the findings of specific experiments and case studies conducted across film, television, and video games\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Accepting the challenges of social media research
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new viewpoint series, Monitoring the Media: Spotlight on Social Media Research, by providing an overview of the key challenges in social media research and some current initiatives in addressing them.
Design/methodology/approach
– The paper considers publication output from disciplines dealing with social media studies and summarises the key challenges as discussed in the broader research community.
Findings
– The paper suggests that challenges originate both from the interdisciplinary nature of social media research and from the ever-changing research landscape. It concludes that, whilst the community is addressing some challenges, others require more attention.
Originality/value
– The paper summarises key challenges of social media and will be of interest to researchers in different disciplines, as well as a general audience, wanting to learn about how social media data are used for research.
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Researching Experiences of Cancer Risk Through Online Blogs
By providing space to document personal narratives and hold virtual discussions, the Internet represents a fruitful resource for sociologists of health and illness. However, the use of social media content for research entails complex ethical considerations. Due to the fluidity of online material, existing ethical guidelines advise a deliberative approach. However, this has led to disparity in the use of social media resources within the social sciences. I share an account of \"doing ethics\" for qualitative research with blogs focused on hereditary cancer risk. Blogging emerged not only as cathartic for authors, but also a means of accessing support. Blogs may thus be construed as constitutive and not only representative of cancer (risk) experience. Ethical questions surround anonymity and the appropriation of authors' accounts beyond the context in which they are composed. By sharing reflections on working with hereditary cancer risk blogs, I contribute to the continued reflexivity of social media researchers.
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Arguing for a general framework for mass media scholarship
“Arguing for a General Framework for Mass Media Scholarship challenges scholars and students to consider and reconsider what we know about media and how we think about media. As such, the book provides an important framework for thinking about knowledge—regardless of the discipline… The text provides all of the necessary tools to move the field forward in a way that will increase the rigor of the work being done and augment the overall profile of the discipline.”In this groundbreaking book, W. James Potter presents an innovative perspective to media scholars and students who are frustrated with the fragmentation of research findings across so many journals, books, and fields. Arguing for a General Framework for Mass Media Scholarship presents a clear plan for a more efficient way to build knowledge about the mass media so that it can be better organized and made more useful.Key FeaturesConducts an in-depth analysis of mass media scholarship's four major facets of effects, content, audiences, and organizations; Presents a significant shift in conceptualizing media effects and ways research can be conducted to generate more useful knowledge about media influence; Develops “narrative line” as a tool to guide analyses about how content decisions are made by producers; Synthesizes a system of explanation about why audiences attend to certain messages and how individuals construct meaning from those messages; Incorporates an analysis of mass media organizations to provide greater context of understanding messages and their effects on individuals and macro units in society“The book will play an important role in providing structure to a broad, fragmented discipline. I believe it will, at the very least, create important dialogues about what we now know/understand about areas of mass media, and where we should move as a discipline… This book is clearly a ‘call to arms’ for mass media scholars to ratchet up the quality of research (and what we know), to see the interconnections within and among strands of scholarship, and to move forward in a more efficient, organized manner. Professor Potter should be commended for this.”“This book is…that call to action that comes forward every few years, to wake us up and challenge our ways of doing things, not by being radical, but via synthesis… I've been waiting for several years for a book like this.”
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