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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Global Media Atlas
MARK BALNAVES is Program Director of the Bachelor of Social Science at the University of Queensland. An expert in survey methodology, he is the author of Introduction to Quantitative research Methods: An Investigative Approach. James Donald is Professor of Media and Head of the School of Media and Information at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. He is author of Sentimental Education: Schooling, popular Culture and the Regulation of Liberty and Imagining the Modern City, and has edited a dozen books on the media, education and social theory. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Public Secrets, Public Spaces: Cinema and Civility in China and co-author of The State of China Atlas.
£30.59
SAGE Publications Inc Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods: An Investigative Approach
Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods is a student-friendly introduction to quantitative research methods and basic statistics. It uses a detective theme throughout the text to show how quantitative methods have been used to solve real-life problems. The book focuses on principles and techniques that are appropriate to introductory level courses in media, psychology and sociology. Examples and illustrations are drawn from historical and contemporary research in the social sciences. The original CD-ROM accompanying the book and its content are no longer available.
£42.28
Peter Lang Publishing Inc A New Theory of Information & the Internet: Public Sphere meets Protocol
The Internet is a complex environment that affords many practices while constraining others. The challenge is to develop languages and tools to critically engage with these environments and to navigate the topology of being a citizen in a technologically mediated environment. This book begins this undertaking. A New Theory of Information & the Internet first documents the historical emergence of the scientific, mathematical, computing, and human communication discussions on information, together with the rise of information as a resource and a commodity. It posits that the contemporary situation has not changed in terms of resolving exactly what information might be as a real thing. What has changed is the idea of information as a resource and a commodity, which has become a cultural trope – a standard way of looking at information. In the process of examining the understanding of information and communication, this book investigates the notion of an informed citizenry and the possibilities of a public sphere/s online within the context of the increasingly ubiquitous place of the Internet in social, informational life.
£88.10