Applied Communication Research Methods
eBook - ePub

Applied Communication Research Methods

Getting Started as a Researcher

  1. 316 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Applied Communication Research Methods

Getting Started as a Researcher

About this book

This third edition is again a practical introduction to communication research methods, foregrounding the role research plays in communication and media industry careers.

Covering major methodologies such as surveys, experiments, focus groups, in-depth interviews, content analysis, and others, the book takes the reader through the research process from beginning to end. The text continues to help students link the research methods they learn to practical contexts through its activities and features, which include Voices From Industry boxes written by practitioners that give insight into application of methods; Steps to Success research review checklists; and numerous end-of-chapter activities to reinforce concepts. This third edition contains updates throughout, including an expanded discussion of reliability and validity across both qualitative and quantitative research contexts as well as new Research in Action boxes that showcase how research is used in professional and public contexts.

The text is ideally suited to both undergraduate and graduate courses in communication research methods within communication, media, and mass communication programs.

Online resources, including sample syllabi, PowerPoint slides, and test banks are available at www.routledge.com/9781032288819.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032328065
eBook ISBN
9781000997149

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Unit Overview
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. 1 Basic Principles of Research and a Guide to Using This Book
  9. 2 Basic Concepts of Research
  10. 3 Scholarly Research and the Creation of Knowledge
  11. 4 Ethical Research
  12. 5 Concept Explication and Measurement
  13. 6 Sampling
  14. 7 Effective Measurement
  15. 8 Validity
  16. 9 Studying People Quantitatively
  17. 10 Studying People Qualitatively
  18. 11 Analyzing Texts and Other Artifacts
  19. 12 Reliability and Subjectivity
  20. 13 Descriptive Statistics
  21. 14 Principles of Inferential Statistics
  22. 15 Bivariate and Multivariate Statistics
  23. Index