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Research Methods for Cultural Studies / Michael Pickering.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities : RMAHPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 8 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748625772
  • 9780748631193
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.072 22
LOC classification:
  • HM623 .R47 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Section One: Lives and Lived Experience -- 1. Experience and the Social World -- 2. Stories and the Social World -- Section Two: Production and Consumption -- 3. Investigating Cultural Producers -- 4. Investigating Cultural Consumers -- Section Three: Quantity and Quality -- 5. Why Counting Counts -- 6. Why Observing Matters -- Section Four: Texts and Pictures -- 7. Analysing Visual Experience -- 8. Analysing Discourse -- Section Five: Linking with the Past -- 9. Engaging with Memory -- 10. Engaging with History -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: This new textbook addresses the neglect of practical research methods in cultural studies. It provides readers with clearly written overviews of research methods in cultural studies, along with guidelines on how to put these methods into operation. It advocates a multi-method approach, with students drawing from a pool of techniques and approaches suitable for their own topics of investigation.The book covers the following main areas:Drawing on experience, and studying how narratives make sense of experience.Investigating production processes in the cultural industries, and the consumption and assimilation of cultural products by audiences and fans.Taking both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of cultural life.Analysing visual images and both spoken and written forms of discourse.Exploring cultural memory and historical representation.Key FeaturesA unique guide to research methods in Cultural StudiesExplores key methods of research, with examples of how to pursue (or not to pursue) a particular method.Expert contributors include Martin Barker, Aeron Davis, David Deacon, Emily Keightley, Steph Lawler, Anneke Meyer, Virginia Nightingale and Sarah Pink.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780748631193

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Section One: Lives and Lived Experience -- 1. Experience and the Social World -- 2. Stories and the Social World -- Section Two: Production and Consumption -- 3. Investigating Cultural Producers -- 4. Investigating Cultural Consumers -- Section Three: Quantity and Quality -- 5. Why Counting Counts -- 6. Why Observing Matters -- Section Four: Texts and Pictures -- 7. Analysing Visual Experience -- 8. Analysing Discourse -- Section Five: Linking with the Past -- 9. Engaging with Memory -- 10. Engaging with History -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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This new textbook addresses the neglect of practical research methods in cultural studies. It provides readers with clearly written overviews of research methods in cultural studies, along with guidelines on how to put these methods into operation. It advocates a multi-method approach, with students drawing from a pool of techniques and approaches suitable for their own topics of investigation.The book covers the following main areas:Drawing on experience, and studying how narratives make sense of experience.Investigating production processes in the cultural industries, and the consumption and assimilation of cultural products by audiences and fans.Taking both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of cultural life.Analysing visual images and both spoken and written forms of discourse.Exploring cultural memory and historical representation.Key FeaturesA unique guide to research methods in Cultural StudiesExplores key methods of research, with examples of how to pursue (or not to pursue) a particular method.Expert contributors include Martin Barker, Aeron Davis, David Deacon, Emily Keightley, Steph Lawler, Anneke Meyer, Virginia Nightingale and Sarah Pink.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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