Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research

✍ Scribed by Sebastian Kubitschko, Anne Kaun (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 342
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection reflects the need for suitable methods to answer emerging questions that result from the ever-changing media environment. As media technologies and infrastructures become inseparably interwoven with social constellations, scholars from varying disciplines increasingly investigate their characteristics, functioning, relevance and impact – facing new methodological challenges as well as opportunities. Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research engages with the substantial need to rethink established methods to research acute changes in the media environment. The book gathers chapters dedicated to the multifacetedness and liveliness of emerging methods – from lifelogging and ethnography to digital methods and visualization – while embedding them in the rich history of interdisciplinary empirical research. Innovation here is a call for widening and rethinking research methods to stimulate a sophisticated debate on and exploration of contemporary methodological approaches for scholars at various levels of academic life. Accompanied by introductory sections of prominent scholars, the majority of empirical studies gathered in this volume are accomplished through early-career scholars who strive to advance cutting-edge and in parts even provocative approaches for the study of media and communication. The book's four sections on Materiality, Technology, Experience and Visualization are introduced by Saskia Sassen, Noortje Marres, Sarah Pink and Lev Manovich.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
An Introduction to Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-16
Engaging (Past) Participants: The Case of radicalprintshops.org....Pages 17-35
A Materialist Media Ecological Approach to Studying Urban Media in/of Place....Pages 37-58
Socio-spatial Approaches for Media and Communication Research....Pages 59-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-79
Neither Black Nor Box: Ways of Knowing Algorithms....Pages 81-98
Sketching Bitcoin: Empirical Research of Digital Affordances....Pages 99-122
Beyond Blobology: Using Psychophysiological Interaction Analyses to Investigate the Neural Basis of Human Communication Phenomena....Pages 123-138
As We Should Think? Lifelogging as a Re-emerging Method....Pages 139-159
Front Matter....Pages 161-165
Visual Ethnography and the City: On the Dead Ends of Reflexivity and Gentrification....Pages 167-187
Exploring Inclusive Ethnography as a Methodology to Account for Multiple Experiences....Pages 189-205
Interviewing Against the Odds....Pages 207-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-225
Ways of Seeing Data: Toward a Critical Literacy for Data Visualizations as Research Objects and Research Devices....Pages 227-251
Urban Sensing: Potential and Limitations of Social Network Analysis and Data Visualization as Research Methods in Urban Studies....Pages 253-272
Mapping Topics in International Climate Negotiations: A Computer-Assisted Semantic Network Approach....Pages 273-291
‘Creative’ and Participatory Visual Approaches in Audience Research....Pages 293-309
Back Matter....Pages 311-330

✦ Subjects

Media and Communication;Media Research;Communication Studies;Research Methodology;Regional and Cultural Studies;Cultural Studies