Volume 1 of Quantitative Research Methods in Communication Science covers the foundational and general issues, operationalization and measurement, as well as study design anddata collection. The section on foundational issues includes chapters on the philosophy of science, causal inference, replicability and open science, statistical power, and ethical issues in quantitative research. The section on operation and measurement includes chapters on concept explication, scale development, establishment of scale unidimensionality, and reliability and validity assessment. The section on study design and data collection includes chapters on experimental studies, survey research, sampling, content and text analysis, the virtual reality method, online data collection, and the collection of digital data. This volume is the first of two that cover state-of-the-art quantitative communication research methods.
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Fundamental Issues, Measurement and Study Design
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Table of contents
- Preface
- Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series
- Contents
- 1 Epistemology in communication science
- 2 Theory construction in quantitative communication science
- 3 Causality in quantitative communication science
- 4 Open science and replication: seeking to strengthen quantitative communication science’s epistemic value
- 5 Statistical power and power analysis in quantitative communication science
- 6 Research ethics in communication science: practical and aspirational landscapes
- 7 Concept formation in communication science
- 8 Scale development and validation
- 9 Establishing scale unidimensionality
- 10 Validity of a measurement scale
- 11 Assessment of reliability in measurement
- 12 Applied sampling for quantitative communication science research
- 13 Experimental studies in quantitative communication research
- 14 Survey research in quantitative communication science
- 15 Content analysis in quantitative communication research
- 16 Methods and measurements in virtual reality for quantitative communication science
- Author Bios
- Index
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De Gruyter MoutonEdition
1Year
2026Print ISBN
9783111087061
Subtopic
Communication StudieseBook ISBN
9783111087139
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