Visual Research Methods: Image, Society, and Representation by Gregory C. Stanczak

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Ethnography and digital Worlds is the one ebook of its kind--a concise, complete, and sensible consultant for college kids, academics, designers, and students drawn to utilizing ethnographic tips on how to learn on-line digital worlds, together with either video game and nongame environments. Written via top ethnographers of digital worlds, and targeting the main approach to player commentary, the ebook presents valuable recommendation, suggestions, guidance, and rules to assist researchers via each degree of a venture, from deciding on a web fieldsite to writing and publishing the consequences.

Religionsgemeinschaften in der direkten Demokratie: Handlungsräume religiöser Minderheiten in der Schweiz (Politik und Religion) (German Edition)

Melanie Zurlinden untersucht die Rolle religiöser Minderheiten in der Schweiz. Anhand von Gruppendiskussionen und publizierten Texten analysiert sie, wie sich freikirchliche, jüdische und muslimische Gemeinschaften in der direkten Demokratie an Kampagnen zu Volksabstimmungen beteiligen. Die Studie fokussiert auf die Diskussionen über Bioethik, Ausländer- und Asylfragen sowie das Religion-Staat-Verhältnis.

Exploring Everyday Life: Strategies for Ethnography and Cultural Analysis

The varied projects and exercises that form our day-by-day lifestyles can look mundane, even invisible—and but they play an exceptionally strong position in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring way of life casts mild on those so-called trivia, serving as either a advisor to the invisible international of the typical and an handbook for first-time explorers.

Understanding Communication Theory: A Beginner's Guide

This ebook bargains scholars a complete, theoretical, and functional consultant to conversation idea. Croucher defines some of the views on verbal exchange theory—the social medical, interpretive, and significant approaches—and then takes at the theories themselves, with issues together with interpersonal verbal exchange, organizational communique, intercultural communique, persuasion, severe and rhetorical concept and different key ideas.