Research Methods and the New Media by Williams, Frederick

Research Methods and the New Media (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780029353318)

Vendor: Frederick Williams
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The new media -- interactive videodiscs, telecommunications, computers, VCRs, teletext systems, and more -- present researchers with...
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Research Methods and the New Media by Williams, Frederick

Research Methods and the New Media

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Research Methods and the New Media by Williams, Frederick

Research Methods and the New Media

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Format: Paperback
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The new media -- interactive videodiscs, telecommunications, computers, VCRs, teletext systems, and more -- present researchers with new challenges when it comes to studying practical applications or theoretical effects. This valuable volume aids researchers in first recognizing the special qualities of interactivity, demassification, and asynchroneity that the new media have created and to instruct professional researchers and students in alternative research methods, multiple methods, and the triangulation of results. For the first time, a variety of methods are examined as they apply to new media research, including mathematical modeling, controlled experiments, quasiexperiments, surveys, longitudinal studies, field studies, archival and secondary research, futures research and forecasting, content analysis, case studies, and focus groups.
Whether the problem to be researched is as focused as considering the cost-benefit for a school wishing to adopt computers in the classroom or as wide-ranging as determining the effects of video games on child socialization, this up-to-date and thorough guide alerts researchers to the pitfalls of traditional methodology and offers a firm foundation upon which they can build reliable, accurate projects able to produce sound results.

Author: Frederick Williams
ISBN-10: 0029353319
ISBN-13: 9780029353318
Publisher: Free Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1988
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.08w x 0.60d

About the Author
Frederick Williams is Mary Gibbs Jones Centennial Professor at the Center for Research on Communication, Technology & Society of the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of The New Communications, among other books.

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