This thoroughly updated edition presents strategies for selecting, refining, and researching communication topics, placing special emphasis on using library resources to search for literature and demystifying the research process by teaching students library skills, scholarly writing, and providing them with a list of bibliographic sources.
Introducing Communication Research: Paths of Inquiry, Fourth Edition demystifies the theories and applications of communication research through its focus on methods in practice.
The Index, Reader’s Guide themes, and Cross-References combine to provide robust search-and-browse in the e-version.
An annual review of communication research, published by the International Communication Association. ... Use your own academic library to find more specialized resources such as Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook or the Handbook of ...
In this new edition, Arthur Asa Berger employs his signature style - a practical focus, the use of numerous examples, a step-by-step approach, and humour - to update and enhance this must-have introductory text.
The book includes an extensive bibliography.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) (limited access is free at www.eric.ed.gov). 6. ... You can find a lot of interesting stuff online using a general search engine, including some worthwhile communication research resources.
The Fourth Edition continues to emphasize the Internet and social media as topics of, and tools for, communication research, and incorporates new content on online methodologies, qualitative research, critical methodologies, and ethics.
Sometimes this tension produces significant identity change (e.g., Robbins, Anthony, & Curtis, 1973). Below, we'll discuss how these problems often depend on the type of role that a participant observer adopts at his or her chosen site.
This volume reflects the current developments in communication research and media science with topics including audience research, internet communication, organizational communication, studies on media use and effects, and educational and ...
... discussions and application of communication research , as a subject ; and as they relate to specific sections of ... mass - media audiences , library resources , or the Internet ) with the aim of strengthening their information ...