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Comms 2004
Karten in diesem Stapel (22)
- 1Historical, Policy, and Case analysis-used to examine individuals, artifacts, events, or trends
-synthesizes data from multiple different sources, into one compelling arguement - 2Historical analysis-Understand a topic by
reconstructing its historical
time period
-Understand a topic by
assessing how it developed
or changed through time - 3Policy Analysis-Assess the implications of a
proposed new policy;
focuses on the issues,
stakeholders, and relevant
context
-Assess the performance of a
current or past policy;
focuses on development of
the policy, and its
implementation and
enforcement - 4Case study-Provide a holistic
understanding of
contemporary issues by
exploring topics within
dynamic settings where
multiple factors come into play
-Investigate a phenomenon
within its real-life context,
rather than theoretical terms or
in a laboratory setting - 5Descriptive and interpretive Claims (Historical, Policy, and case analysis)-these claims seek out to see what makes a particular study worthy of attention
- 6Explanatory Claims (Historical, Policy, and case analysis)- attempt to identify casual relationships between events, or find the impetus for significant moments or trends
-used to explain why certain events take the shape they do - 7Evaluative and reformist claims (Historical, Policy, and case analysis)-assess or judge the research topic using an established set of criteria; may use the research findings to argue for change in present day
- 8Traditional documentary evidence- any written proof that can be applied to support the fact; ideally a researchers primary source of evidence
- 9Published Documents-any texts that are printed and distributed widely
- 10Unpublished Documents-texts which have not been formally published, or which have not had wide, popular circulation (personal letter, diary, letters, emails)
- 11Material artifacts-any physical object that is related to or conveys some sort of relevent information to a research topic (radio, clothing, photos)
- 12Informant-any living individual who has some direct relationship with the research topic and can provide relevant first hand knowledge
- 13Warrants for Historical, policy, and case analysis- audit trails: marking where all the information was retrieved from
-Representativeness and adequency: is the study representative of the issue
-Coherence: can the findings of the study be applied across several different studies - 14Content analysis-used to examine the content of communication in media
-believes messages can be discovered through precise, systematic, and repetitive observations
-primarily a quantitative method
-typically examines narrative discourse, and interactive discourse
-discovery paradigm - 15Descriptive Claims (content analysis)-aims to describe messages or their characteristics in a particular cultural context
(ex: climate change and its effect in each country) - 16Explanatory Claims (Content analysis)- aims to undertsand how messages effect the individuals who recieve them
(used in studies about audiences) - 17Predictive claims (content analysis)-aims to undertsand how messages effect the individuals who recieve them
- 18Random data collection sampling methods-simple random, sytematic with a random start, stratified
- 19Manifest content-concerned with textual data, means that a layer of data is obvious or apparent
- 20Latent content-layer of implict meaning
- 21Coding scheme-a consistent set of specific units and levels of analysis that you will use to collect data from each text
- 22Warrants (Content analysis)-intercoder reliabilty: percentage to which all coders agree
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- Karteikarten am Comms 2004, erstellt von Justin Veltri am 17/06/2018.
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