How to Do Media and Cultural Studies
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How to Do Media and Cultural Studies

  1. 337 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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How to Do Media and Cultural Studies

About this book

A favourite with both students and lecturers, How to Do Media and Cultural Studies provides readers with all the knowledge and practical expertise they need to carry out their project or dissertation. Giving them hands-on guidance on managing the whole process, Jane Stokes: 

  • Shows students how to identify a topic and create a research question
  • Guides them through the research process, from getting started through to writing-up
  • Explores a range a case studies, showing how methods have been applied by others

Expanded and updated throughout, this 3rd edition now includes:

  • Increased coverage of digital media, social media and internet research
  • More practical exercises to help you tie media and cultural theory to your work
  • New guidance on understanding research ethics
  • New guidance on mixing and combining methods

How to Do Media and Cultural Studies has inspired thousands of students and researchers to understand why studying media texts, industries and audiences is so important. It is an ideal companion for anyone conducting a research project.

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Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781526427755
9781526427748
eBook ISBN
9781526452573

Table of contents

  1. HOW TO DO MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES – FRONT COVER
  2. HOW TO DO MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES
  3. COPYRIGHT
  4. CONTENTS
  5. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. PART I - THINKING: THEORY AND PRACTICE
  8. CHAPTER 1 - ADDRESSING EPISTEMOLOGY: HOW DO WE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ANYTHING?
  9. CHAPTER 2 - WHY DO WE DO MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES?
  10. PART II - PRACTICALITIES: MANAGING YOUR RESEARCH
  11. CHAPTER 3 - GETTING STARTED
  12. CHAPTER 4 - MANAGING THE RESEARCH PROCESS
  13. CHAPTER 5 - GETTING FINISHED
  14. PART III - METHODS AND APPROACHES TO RESEARCH
  15. CHAPTER 6 - RESEARCHING TEXTS: APPROACHES TO ANALYSING MEDIA AND CULTURAL CONTENT
  16. CHAPTER 7 - RESEARCHING THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES: STUDYING ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS AND PRODUCERS
  17. CHAPTER 8 - RESEARCHING AUDIENCES: WHO USES MEDIA AND CULTURE? HOW AND WHY?
  18. CHAPTER 9 - RESEARCH IN CONTEXT: EXPLORING MULTI-METHOD APPROACHES AND RESEARCH THROUGH PRACTICE
  19. CHAPTER 10 - CONCLUSION
  20. GLOSSARY
  21. REFERENCES
  22. INDEX

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