This book critically examines the potential of, and suggests ways forward in, harnessing a versatile and powerful method of research - focus groups. The book challenges some of the emerging orthodoxies and presents accessible, insightful and reflective discussions about the issues around focus group work.
This book critically examines the potential of, and suggests ways forward in, harnessing a versatile and powerful method of research - focus groups. T...
This book critically examines the potential of, and suggests ways forward in, harnessing a versatile and powerful method of research - focus groups. The book challenges some of the emerging orthodoxies and presents accessible, insightful and reflective discussions about the issues around focus group work.
This book critically examines the potential of, and suggests ways forward in, harnessing a versatile and powerful method of research - focus groups. T...
This book moves beyond the narrow focus of much of the work on media and cultural studies to examine the whole process of interaction between the media and the social world. Rejecting approaches which focus only on ownership or discourse or audience reception, this new book from the Glasgow Media Group, examines: promotional strategies; media production; representation and audience responses; as well as broader impacts on policy, culture and society.
Using a detailed analysis of the struggle over representation during the AIDS crisis as point of departure, The Circuit of Mass Communication...
This book moves beyond the narrow focus of much of the work on media and cultural studies to examine the whole process of interaction between the medi...
Examines mass media representations of AIDS from their inception through to their impact on public understandings. Rejecting approaches which focus on ownership, discourse or audience reception, this book also examines: promotional strategies; media production; representation and audience responses; and, impacts on policy, culture and society.
Examines mass media representations of AIDS from their inception through to their impact on public understandings. Rejecting approaches which focus on...
This book examines the making of human cloning as an imaginary practice and scientific fact. It explores the controversies surrounding both 'therapeutic cloning' for stem cell research and 'reproductive' cloning. The authors analyse the cultural production of cloning, how practices and representations play out in the global arena, and its transformation from science fiction to science practice. Case studies are used to illustrate key fore grounded issues: the image of the scientist, scientific expertise and institutions the governance of science the representation of women's bodies as the...
This book examines the making of human cloning as an imaginary practice and scientific fact. It explores the controversies surrounding both 'therapeut...
