In order to prepare a successful research project, a qualitative researcher often must consult media documents of various types. Author David L. Altheide shows the reader how to obtain, categorize, and analyze these different media documents in this entry in the Qualitative Research Methods series. [...]

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 magaz[...]