[ecrea] New book: Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research

We are very pleased to announce the publication of /Innovative Methods 
in Media and Communication Research/ (Palgrave Macmillan 2016).
The book engages with the need to rethink established methods to 
research acute changes in the media environment. The book gathers 
chapters dedicated to the multifacetedness and liveliness of emerging 
methods while embedding them in the rich history of interdisciplinary 
empirical research. Innovation here is a call for widening and 
rethinking research methods to stimulate a sophisticated debate on and 
exploration of contemporary methodological approaches for scholars at 
various levels of academic life.

Accompanied by introductory sections of prominent scholars (Saskia 
Sassen, Noortje Marres, Sarah Pink and Lev Manovich), the majority of 
empirical studies gathered in this volume are accomplished through 
early-career scholars who strive to advance cutting-edge and in parts 
even provocative approaches for the study of media and communication.
We truly hope that the book will a valuable resource for doing research 
as well as for assisting teaching by providing a methods book that draws 
together a diverse and eclectic range of material that is presented in 
accessible and stimulating form.

Endorsed by Jean Burgess, Jack Qiu and Helen Kennedy, /Innovative 
Methods in Media and Communication Research/ is available as softcover 
and eBook at https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319406992 or 
https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319406992 (and all online/offline 
bookstores).

Best wishes - Sebastian and Anne

P.S. This is what the table of contents looks like


Foreword by Nick Couldry

1 Sebastian Kubitschko and Anne Kaun: An introduction to innovative 
methods in media and communication research

*Part I: Materiality* (introduced by Saskia Sassen)

2 Jess Baines: /Engaging (past) participants: the case of 
radicalprintshops.org <http://radicalprintshops.org>/

3 Erin Despard: /A materialist media ecological approach to studying 
urban media in/of place/

4 Segah Sak: /Socio-Spatial approaches for media and communication research/

*Part II: Technology* (introduced by Noortje Marres/)/


  5 Taina Bucher: /Neither black nor box: Ways of knowing algorithms/

6 Pablo R. Velasco: /Sketching Bitcoin: Empirical research of digital 
affordances/

7 Richard Huskey: /Beyond blobology: Using psychophysiological 
interaction analyses to investigate the neural basis of human 
communication phenomena/

8 Alberto Frigo: /As we should think? Lifelogging as a re-emerging method/

*Part III: Experience* (introduced by Sarah Pink)

9 Emily LaDue: /Visual ethnography and the city: //On the dead ends of 
reflexivity and gentrification/

10 Paola Sartoretto: /Exploring inclusive ethnography as a methodology 
to account for multiple experiences/

11 Neha Kumar: /Interviewing against odds/

*Part IV: Visualization* (introduced by Lev Manovich)

12 Jonathan Gray, Liliana Bounegru, Stefania Milan and Paolo 
Ciuccarelli: /Ways of seeing data: Towards a critical literacy for data 
visualizations as research objects and research devices/

13 Luca Simeone and Paolo Patelli: /Urban Sensing: potential and 
limitations of social network analysis and data visualization as 
research methods in urban studies/

14 Nicolas Baya-Laffite and Jean-Philippe Cointet: Mapping topics in 
international climate negotiations: a computer-assisted semantic network 
approach

15 Katharina Lobinger: /‘Creative’ and participatory visual approaches 
in audience research/

Sebastian Kubitschko and Anne Kaun: Innovative methods in media and 
communication research: An outlook


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