The Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research

Part I. Media Policy Research.- 1. Introduction: Media Policy and Media Policy Research (Manuel Puppis and Hilde Van den Bulck).- 2. Doing Media Policy Research (Manuel Puppis and Hilde Van den Bulck).- 3. Digitization and Media Policy Research (Karen Donders and Leo Van Audenhove).- Part II. Research Design.- 4. Case Study Research (Sally Broughton Micova).- 5. Comparative Research (Frank Esser).- 6. Meta-Analysis (Werner A. Meier).- 7. Action Research (Greg Hearn, Dan Swan and Kathryn Geels).- Part III. Methods of Data Collection.- 8. Talking to People I: Surveys (Uwe Hasebrink and Sascha Hölig).- 9. Talking to People II: Qualitative Interviews (Martine van Selm and Natali Helberger).- 10. Talking to People III: Expert Interviews and Elite Interviews (Leo Van Audenhove and Karen Donders).- 11. Talking to People IV: Focus Groups (Peter Lunt).- 12 Watching People: Observations (Lizzie Jackson and Michal Glowacki).- 13. Testing People: Experiments (Christian Handke and Christian Herzog).- 14. Texts as Data I: Document Analysis (Kari Karppinen and Hallvard Moe).- 15. Texts as Data II: Media Content Analysis (Corinne Schweizer).- 16. Texts as Data III: Digital TV Archives (Sonja de Leeuw and Jasmijn Van Gorp).- 17. Texts as Data IV: Web Crawling, Content and Link Analysis (Natascha Just).- 18. Working with Secondary Data: Official and Industry Statistics (Marlen Komorowski).- Part IV. Methods of Data Analysis.- 19. Statistical Analysis (Jurgen Minnebo and Bart Cambré).- 20. Analyzing Big Data (Balázs Bodó and Bob van de Velde).- 21. Analyzing Talk and Text I: Qualitative Content Analysis (Manuel Puppis).- 22. Analyzing Talk and Text II: Thematic Analysis (Christian Herzog, Christian Handke and Erik Hitters).- 23. Analyzing Talk and Text III: Discourse Analysis (Christopher Ali).- 24. Analyzing Talk and Text IV: Frame Analysis (Maria

Hilde Van den Bulck is Professor of Communication Studies and Head of the Department of Communication at Drexel University, USA.



Manuel Puppis is Full Professor of Media Systems and Media Structures in the Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Karen Donders is Assistant Professor of Communication at the Department of Communication Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and senior researcher at imec-SMIT.

Leo Van Audenhove is Professor of Communication and Head of the Department of Communication Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and researcher at imec-SMIT.

"This elegant and impressive compilation of essays on media policy research, edited by three Belgian scholars and one Swiss, arrives at a timely moment. ... the essays provide a unique reference book for those working in the field. ... It is a welcome contribution indeed, especially during this period of transformation, when so many established norms seem to be in question, and when the moment calls out desperately for new methods of policy-making and policy research." (Monroe E. Price and Stefaan G. Verhulst, Journal of Digital Media & Policy, Vol. 12 (3), 2021)