Rethinking Research Methods in an Age of Digital Journalism

ISBN-13: 9781138070523 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 198 str.

Michael Karlsson; Helle Sjovaag

Opis

Providing an entry point into the emerging methods in digital journalism research, this book describes, discusses and exemplifies ways to collect, process and analyse digital media data, moving the methodology of digital journalism research forward. This book was originally published as a special issue of Digital Journalism.

Spis treści

Introduction: Research methods in an age of digital journalism  1. Taking Stock of the Toolkit: An overview of relevant automated content analysis approaches and techniques for digital journalism scholars  2. Tracing Online News in Motion: Time and duration in the study of liquid journalism  3. What is the meaning of a news link?  4. Chances and Challenges of Computational Data Gathering and Analysis: The case of issue-attention cycles on Facebook  5. Word Counts and Topic Models: Automated text analysis methods for digital journalism research  6. Quantitative analysis of large amounts of journalistic texts using topic modelling  7. Googling the news: Opportunities and challenges in studying news events through Google Search  8. Grasping the Digital News User: Conceptual and methodological advances in news use studies  9. Same, Same but Different: Effects of mixing Web and mail modes in audience research  10. Action Research: Collaborative research for the improvement of digital journalism practice  11. Content Analysis and Online News: Epistemologies of analysing the ephemeral Web

O autorze

Michael Karlsson is Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. Helle Sjøvaag is a Research Professor in Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway.