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Mass media research: an introduction
Now in its fourth edition, Media Effects again features essays from some of the finest scholars in the field and serves as a comprehensive reference volume for scholars, teachers, and students. This edition contains both new and updated content that reflects our media-saturated environments, including chapters on social media, video games, mobile communication, and virtual technologies. In reco…
- Edition
- 4th ed
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429491146
- Collation
- 1 online resource
- Series Title
- Routledge communication series
- Call Number
- 302.23 RAN m
Mass media research :an introduction
Quality media is the result of meticulous research. MASS MEDIA RESEARCH: AN INTRODUCTION, shows you how it happens--from content analysis to surveys to experimental research--then gives you expert tips on analyzing the media you encounter in your daily life
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- 9th. Ed
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781439083925
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 302.230 72 WIM m
Research design: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches
This best-selling text pioneered the comparison of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method research design. For all three approaches, John W. Creswell and new co-author J. David Creswell include a preliminary consideration of philosophical assumptions, key elements of the research process, a review of the literature, an assessment of the use of theory in research applications, and reflectio…
- Edition
- 5th Ed
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781506386706
- Collation
- xxv, 275 pages ; 25 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 300.721 CRE r
Doing news framing analysis: empirical and theoretical perspectives
Doing News Framing Analysis provides an interpretive guide to news frames – what they are, how they can be observed in news texts, and how framing effects are uncovered and substantiated in cultural, group, and individual sites. Chapters feature framing analysts reflecting on their own empirical work in research, classroom, and public settings to address specific aspects of framing analysis. …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780415992367
- Collation
- xiv, 376 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Series Title
- LEA's communication series
- Call Number
- 302.23 D'A d
Urban politics: critical approaches
This critical, thought provoking discussion of contemporary urban politics places key issues in a geographical context. The text provides a thorough theoretical grounding with an extensive thematic overview. This unique approach links classical, institutional urban politics with a broader set of urban politics and practices. With case study material integrated throughout, and consideration give…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780857023971
- Collation
- xiv, 235 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 320.85 DAV u
Cities and urban life
Description: A comprehensive introduction to urban sociology Cities and Urban Life, written by two of the best-known authors in the field, provides a comprehensive introduction to urban sociology, urban anthropology and urban studies. The focus of the text is sociological, but it also incorporates research and theory from other disciplines. Upon completing this book, readers will be able to…
- Edition
- 6th ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780205206377
- Collation
- 449 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 307.76 PAR c
The Oxford handbook of electoral systems
No subject is more central to the study of politics than elections. All across the globe, elections are a focal point for citizens, the media, and politicians long before--and sometimes long after--they occur. Electoral systems, the rules about how voters' preferences are translated into election results, profoundly shape the results not only of individual elections but also of many other impor…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780190258658
- Collation
- xii, 996 pages ; 26 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 324.6 HER o
Handbook of party politics
Designed to provide a useful survey of the theories and approaches in this dynamic area of study and research, this book gives students and researchers a concise 'road map' to the core literatures in all the sub-fields of party related theorizing and research. It addresses few topics to be addressed in nationally or regionally specific ways.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0761943145 (hbk.)
- Collation
- xiii, 550 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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- -
- Call Number
- 324.2 KAT h
The future of US global power: delusions of decline
Has the combination of protracted war, explosive indebtedness and mounting income inequality dealt a decisive blow to US global influence and stature? Has the 'rise of the rest' completely upended the distribution of global power? The flood of recent commentary bemoaning the end of American primacy would lead one to think so. Stuart Brown rejects this conventional wisdom, and argues that the US…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781137023155
- Collation
- x, 321 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Series Title
- International political economy series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- Call Number
- 327.730 090 512 BRO f
Interpreting China's economy
This book is unique in covering all important topics of the Chinese economy in depth but written in a language understandable to the layman and yet challenging to the expert. Beginning with entrepreneurship that propels the dynamic economic changes in China today, the book is organized into four broad parts to discuss China's economic development, to analyze significant economic issues, to reco…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789814317948
- Collation
- viii, 288 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 330.951 06 CHO i
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