The Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research
“Understanding media policy is key to the study of polities and politics. Whatever the insights into policy processes and their outcomes, research must be methodologically rigorous. This book on methodology is an enormously useful guide to ensuring that m
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The Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research
Hilde Van den Bulck · Manuel Puppis · Karen Donders · Leo Van Audenhove Editors
The Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research
Editors Hilde Van den Bulck Department of Communication Drexel University Philadelphia, USA Karen Donders Department of Communication Studies Vrije Universiteit Brussel Brussels, Belgium
Manuel Puppis Department of Communication and Media Research University of Fribourg Fribourg, Switzerland Leo Van Audenhove Department of Communication Studies Vrije Universiteit Brussel Brussels, Belgium
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Preface
Conversations about preparing a handbook of media policy research methods started a while ago, to put it mildly. During a panel session celebrating the publication of Trends in Communication Policy Research: New Theories, Methods and Subjects at the ECREA 2012 conference in Istanbul, Sonia Livingstone emphasized the importance of media and communication p olicy research paying more attention to methods. At that point, Hilde Van den Bulck and Manuel Puppis had been talking about a book on media policy methods for several years, but were reluctant to ‘walk the walk’ of editing such a volume. The tipping point was when Sandra Braman—always more knowledgeable than others—told Hilde during the ICA 2014 conference in Seattle: ‘So I hear you and Manuel are doing a book on media p
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