Media, Information and Technoculture 245a/b Designing and Critiquing Research Methods for the Digital Age |
An introduction to the range of research methods appropriate for understanding scholarship in the field of communications, information and media, including survey research, polls, interviewing, content analysis, and ethnography. Students will study specific research methods in the context of the media-related research problems that these methods have been used to address. |
Prerequisite: Two of: Media, Information and Technoculture 024a/b, 025a/b, 026a/b, Computer Science 031a/b, the former Journalism 024a/b, 025a/b; or permission of the course instructor. |
Antirequisite: Sociology 231 |
3 lecture hours, half course |
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