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6 - Making Media Data

An Introduction to Qualitative Media Research

from Part II - Media Data Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2017

By
Laura Favaro ,
Rosalind Gill  and
Laura Harvey
Edited by
Virginia Braun ,
Victoria Clarke  and
Debra Gray
Virginia Braun
Affiliation:
University of Auckland
Victoria Clarke
Affiliation:
University of the West of England, Bristol
Debra Gray
Affiliation:
University of Winchester
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Collecting Qualitative Data
A Practical Guide to Textual, Media and Virtual Techniques
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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References

Further Resources: Online

For more information about the ‘Everyday Coupledom’ project, see www.enduringlove.co.uk

The Association of Internet Researchers Ethical guidelines can be found here: http://aoir.org/reports/ethics2.pdf

The ReStore site offers material related to the assessment and development of new methods for the analysis of media content: http://www.restore.ac.uk/lboro/

Further Resources: Readings

To read more about the mediated intimacy case-study, see Gill, R. (2009). Mediated intimacy and postfeminism: A discourse analytic examination of sex and relationships advice in a women’s magazine. Discourse & Communication, 3(4), 1–25.Google Scholar
To read more about the ‘Lose the Lads’ Mags’ example study, see García-Favaro, L. and Gill, R. (2016). ‘Emasculation nation has arrived’: Sexism rearticulated in online responses to Lose the Lads’ Mags campaign. Feminist Media Studies, 16(3), 379–397.Google Scholar
For research methods for media analysis, see chapter 15 in this accessible introduction to media studies: Branston, G. and Stafford, R. (2010). The media student’s book (5th edn). London: Routledge.Google Scholar
For a focus on media analysis from a gendered perspective, see Chapter 2, in particular, in: Gill, R. (2007). Gender and the media. Cambridge: Polity Press.Google Scholar
For a discussion of some theoretical perspectives around Internet and communications research, see: Rice, R. E. and Fuller, R. P. (2013). Theoretical perspectives in the study of communication and the Internet. In Dutton, W. H. (ed.), The Oxford handbook of Internet studies (pp. 353–377). Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar

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