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Research Methods and the New Media
Frederick Williams
Ronald E. Rice
Everett M. Rogers
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 1988-09-26
主題
Business & Economics / General
Business & Economics / Business Communication / General
Business & Economics / Industries / Media & Communications
Reference / Research
Social Science / Media Studies
ISBN
0029353319
9780029353318
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rhZO_kjNeyMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The "new media" -- interactive videodiscs, telecommunications, computers, VCRs, teletext systems, and more -- present researchers with new challenges when it comes to studying practical applications or theoretical effects. This valuable volume aids researchers in first recognizing the special qualities of interactivity, demassification, and asynchroneity that the new media have created and to instruct professional researchers and students in alternative research methods, multiple methods, and the triangulation of results. For the first time, a variety of methods are examined as they apply to new media research, including mathematical modeling, controlled experiments, quasiexperiments, surveys, longitudinal studies, field studies, archival and secondary research, futures research and forecasting, content analysis, case studies, and focus groups.
Whether the problem to be researched is as focused as considering the cost-benefit for a school wishing to adopt computers in the classroom or as wide-ranging as determining the effects of video games on child socialization, this up-to-date and thorough guide alerts researchers to the pitfalls of traditional methodology and offers a firm foundation upon which they can build reliable, accurate projects able to produce sound results.