Buch(elektronisch)2016

Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research

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Kubitschko, Sebastian; Kaun, Anne

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This collection reflects the need for suitable methods to answer emerging questions that result from the ever-changing media environment. As media technologies and infrastructures become inseparably interwoven with social constellations, scholars from varying disciplines increasingly investigate their characteristics, functioning, relevance and impact - facing new methodological challenges as well as opportunities. Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research engages with the substantial need to rethink established methods to research acute changes in the media environment. The book gathers chapters dedicated to the multifacetedness and liveliness of emerging methods - from lifelogging and ethnography to digital methods and visualization - while embedding them in the rich history of interdisciplinary empirical research. Innovation here is a call for widening and rethinking research methods to stimulate a sophisticated debate on and exploration of contemporary methodological approaches for scholars at various levels of academic life. Accompanied by introductory sections of prominent scholars, the majority of empirical studies gathered in this volume are accomplished through early-career scholars who strive to advance cutting-edge and in parts even provocative approaches for the study of media and communication. 'Informative and inviting, this book opens a new window full of cutting-edge innovations and, more important, critical perspectives to think about methodological breakthroughs in digital media research. I can't wait to use this book in my graduate seminars.' Jack Linchuan Qiu, Ph.D. Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research

Kubitschko, Sebastian

Foreword to 'Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research' -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- EDITOR Biography -- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research -- Where We Are and Where We Want to Go -- The Structure of the Book -- References -- Part I: Materiality -- Chapter 2: Engaging (Past) Participants: The Case of radicalprintshops.org -- Someone Should Do a History Before We All Die -- Problem Context No. 1 -- Problem Context No. 2 -- Setting Up the Wiki -- Challenge No. 1 -- Challenge No. 2 -- Challenge No. 3 -- Under Maintenance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: A Materialist Media Ecological Approach to Studying Urban Media in/of Place -- Methodological Orientations of Existing Research on Urban Places -- A Comparative Approach to the Study of Site-Specific Media -- Actor-Network Theory and the Inclusion of Non-Human Actors in the Making of Place -- Locative and Place-Based Media Experiments -- Materialist Media Ecologies -- Naïve Experimentation as Method -- Instagram as a Way of Seeing the City -- The North Kelvin Meadow Campaign -- @ilovenorthkelvinmeadow: An Ambivalent Revaluation and Failed Politicization of Place via Instagram -- Learning from the Surprises and Failures of a Naïve Experimentation with Instagram -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Socio-spatial Approaches for Media and Communication Research -- Socio-spatial Attributes of the Digital Realm -- Merging the Approaches of Socio-spatial and Media Research -- Approaching the Digital Realm as a Place of Memory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Technology -- Chapter 5: Neither Black Nor Box: Ways of Knowing Algorithms -- Revisiting the Black-Boxed 'Nature' of Algorithms -- Ways of Knowing Algorithms: Three Steps to Consider