Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research

An introduction to innovative methods in media and communication research. Sebastian Kubitschko and Anne Kaun.- Part I: Materiality. Introduced by Saskia Sassen: The assemblages within which the digital functions.- 1.Jess Baines.The value, challenges and contradictions of instigating the open wiki radicalprintshops.org.- 2.Erin Despard.A materialist media ecological approach to studying urban media in/of place.- 3.Segah Sak.Socio-Spatial approaches for media and communication research.- Part II: Technology. Introduced by Noortje Marres: Title .- 4.Taina Bucher.Neither black nor box: Ways of knowing algorithms.- 5.Pablo R. Velasco.Sketching Bitcoin: Empirical research of digital affordances.- 6.Richard Huskey.Beyond blobology: Using psychophysiological interaction analyses to investigate the neural basis of human communication phenomena.- 7.Alberto Frigo.As we should think? Lifelogging as a re-emerging method.- Part III: Experience. Introduced by Sarah Pink: Digital ethnography.- 8.Emily LaDue.Visual ethnography and the city: On the dead ends of reflexivity and gentrification.- 9.Paola Sartoretto.Exploring inclusive ethnography as a methodology to account for multiple experiences.- 10.Neha Kumar.Interviewing against odds.- Part IV: Visualization. Introduced by Lev Manovich: Visualizing media.- 11.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.- 12.Luca Simeone and Paolo Patelli.Urban Sensing: potential and limitations of social network analysis and data visualization as research methods in urban studies.- 13.Nicolas Baya-Laffite and Jean-Philippe Cointet.Mapping topics in international climate negotiations: a computer-assisted semantic network approach.- 14.Katharina Lobinger.'Creative' and participatory visual approaches in audience research.- 15.Innovative methods in media and communication research: An outlook.Anne Kaun and Sebastian Kubitschko