Introducing Communication Research: Paths of Inquiry, Fourth Edition demystifies the theories and applications of communication research through its focus on methods in practice.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) (limited access is free at www.eric.ed.gov). 6. ... You can find a lot of interesting stuff online using a general search engine, including some worthwhile communication research resources.
An annual review of communication research, published by the International Communication Association. ... Use your own academic library to find more specialized resources such as Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook or the Handbook of ...
Streamlined, accessible, and with campus-based research examples that students can relate to, this text guides students through the fundamentals of conducting research and presenting research findings for scholarly, professional, news/media ...
Sometimes this tension produces significant identity change (e.g., Robbins, Anthony, & Curtis, 1973). Below, we'll discuss how these problems often depend on the type of role that a participant observer adopts at his or her chosen site.
Ideal for research methods courses covering multiple methodologies, this is the only text that uses a research-as-argument approach to help students become not only more effective researchers, but more insightful consumers of research.
The book takes an applied methods approach, introducing students to the conceptual elements of communication science and then presenting these elements in a single study throughout the text, articulating the similarities and differences of ...
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Validity of interpretations of meta-ethnographies is of concern to the scientific community partly due to postpositivist norms ... However, this should not be an issue when conducting a meta-ethnography since this method stems from the ...
This book deals with both qualitative and quantitative approaches to research methodology; the steps followed in the research process; data collection (sampling, measuring, questioning and observing); and the procedures followed when ...