Interviewing Against the Odds
Kumar demonstrates that the increasing abundance of digital data to fuel empirical research is equipped to tell us much more about the West than about the rest of the world, particularly the global South, which still lacks representation in our increasing
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in Media and Communication Research Edited by Sebastian Kubitschko and Anne Kaun
Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research
Sebastian Kubitschko • Anne Kaun Editors
Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research
Editors Sebastian Kubitschko University of Bremen (ZeMKI) Bremen, Germany
Anne Kaun Södertörn University Huddinge, Sweden
ISBN 978-3-319-40699-2 ISBN 978-3-319-40700-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40700-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016956372 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword to ‘Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research’
How we research the social world can seem to be the concern only of professional academics. Even among academics, books about methods tend to be the books you consult only when you have to, while debates about methods (methodological debates), although they sometimes come to the fore in particular academic fields, generally do so under disguise, as disputes about ‘ontology’, new paradigms, and the like. A major collection of essays by young scholars on what is at stake in innovative methods is therefore a notable event. The context indeed could not be more urgent. The transformations of what we still try to call the ‘media’ environment over the past quarter- century have been profound. Twenty-five years ago the challenge for media and communications scholars was to reflect on the implications of expanding television channels and everyday video recording. In the early years of the internet’s commercialization, modes of internet access seemed to play out in a parallel world of their own—the world of ‘cyberspace’— which attracted its explorers and methodological pion
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