Summary
Contents
In order to prepare a successful research project, a qualitative researcher often must consult various types of media documents. How to obtain, categorize and analyze different media documents is the subject of this book. The author looks at traditional primary documents such as newspapers and magazines, but also at more recent forms like television newscasts and cyberspace.
Field Notes and Other Data
Field Notes and Other Data
Virtually all research involves documents and most of these can be analyzed qualitatively. Although the focus in this book has been on primary documents, this chapter examines how to use many of these principles to work with secondary documents, including interviews, field notes from observations, and records. Content ...