Berger, Arthur Asa, 1933-

Media research techniques / Arthur Asa Berger. - Second edition - viii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-168)

Guided research projects -- Research logs -- Content analysis: newspaper comics pages -- Survey interviews: media utilization -- Social roles: television soap opera characters -- Depth interviews: favorite singers and records -- Rhetorical analysis: magazine advertisments -- Library research: audiences of radio talk shows -- Focus groups: reasons for attending films -- Experiments: humor -- Participant observation: video game players -- Historical research: images of shopping malls in the popular press -- Comparative analysis: images of Disneyland (and Disney World) in the American popular and scholarly press -- Writing with style -- Avoiding common writing errors -- Avoiding common reasoning errors -- Writing a research report -- References -- Name index -- Subject index -- About the author.

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Mass media--Research--Methodology.

P91.3 / .B386 1998

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