Doing Media Research

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Michael Stevenson is an associate professor of new media and digital culture at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include the history of new media and open source culture. He has published research in the journals New Media & Society, Internet Histories, The European Journal of Media Studies, among others. He created the short documentary Geeks in Cyberspace: A Story from The Early Web in 2019, and plays third base for the Neptunus Baseball & Softball club's sixth division amateur baseball team.

Misha Kavka is professor of cross-media culture at the University of Amsterdam and co-founder of the research group Queer Analysis at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. She has published widely on gender, sexuality, celebrity and affect in relation to television, film and media technologies. She is the author of Reality Television, Affect and Intimacy (2008) and Reality TV (2012), and the co-editor of volumes and special issues on reality television, gothic culture and feminist theory.

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An undergraduate introduction to the research process and research methods in media studies. Uniquely student-centred, and built around first year teaching at the world's #1 ranked media studies department.

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Section I: Fundamentals
Chapter 1. What is research?
Chapter 2. What is an idea?
Chapter 3. What is a media research topic?
Chapter 4. What is a research question?
Chapter 5. What is a theoretical framework?
Chapter 6. What is method?
Chapter 7. What is analysis?
Chapter 8. What is ethical research?
Section II. The research process
Chapter 9. Choosing sources and collecting data
Chapter 10. Picking apart and piecing together: interpreting media texts
Chapter 11. Sorting and counting: structured analysis of media content
Chapter 12. Asking and listening: researching with producers, audiences and users
Chapter 13. Mapping and visualizing: illustrating ideas and exploring data
Section III. The writing process
Chapter 14. Genres of research writing
Chapter 15. Argumentation
Chapter 16. Responsible citation
Chapter 17. Giving and receiving feedback