Subject(s): Qualitative research | Dissertations, Academic
Contents:List of tables -- List of figures -- List of appendices -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Taking charge of yourself and your work -- A complete dissertation : the big picture -- Gearing up : there is method in the madness -- Choosing a quali
Subject(s): Communication | Mass media
Contents:Articulation -- Audience -- Broadcasting -- Capitalism -- Communication(s) -- Convergence -- Criticism/critique -- Cultural form -- Culture -- Culture industry -- Cyberculture -- Deconstruction -- Digital -- Discourse -- Embodiment -- Encoding/decoding -- Freedom of communication -- Genre --
Subject(s): Critical discourse analysis
Contents:Introduction: how meaning is created -- Making active choices: language as a set of resources -- Analysing semiotic choices: words and images -- Presenting speech and speakers: quoting verbs -- Representing people: language and identity -- Representing action: transitivity and verb processes
Subject(s): Social sciences -- Research
Contents:What is (and is not) social research? -- The goals of social research -- The process of social research: ideas and evidence -- The ethics of social research -- Using qualitative methods to study commonalities -- Using comparative methods to study diversity -- Using quantitative methods to st
