List of Contributors
Section I: Theory in a Changing World
Introduction to theory in a changing world
Michael P. Boyle and Adam M. Rainear
Chapter 1: Digital journalism: Theory, practice, and critics
Masduki, Iwan Awaluddin Yusuf, Narayana Mahendra Prastya, Id NDK Ningsih, and Dian Dwi Anisa
Chapter 2: Heuristics and digital horizons: Navigating media effects in journalism
Xialing Lin and Patric R. Spence
Chapter 3: Community structure shapes journalism: From modest model to robust theory
John C. Pollock
Chapter 4: Understanding user and designer perspectives on newsroom automation: Exploring a clash in newsworker and technologist perspectives through comparative analysis
Shangyuan Wu, Pei Qi Chua, and Edson C. Tandoc Jr.
Chapter 5: An exploratory experiment to understand perceptions of medical experts and scientists presented in news media regarding the COVID-19 vaccine
Brett W. Robertson and Adam M. Rainear
Chapter 6: Ethics in research
Kimberly Meltzer
Section II: Sampling and Measurement
Section introduction
Michael P. Boyle and Adam M. Rainear
Chapter 7: Rapport and journalist to subject relationships
Kimberly Meltzer
Chapter 8: Measuring media's ecological effects: Spatial analyses of local media's role in non-institutional political engagement
Abby Y. Qin
Chapter 9: Qualitative listening in data gathering
Michele Kimball
Chapter 10: Universal Design (UD) practices and accessibility disclosure statements: Best practices in the web-based research
Alicia Mason, Elizabeth A. Spencer, Pan Liu, Kristen M. Livingston, Angela Ashmore, Lauren Shepard, and Tristan A. Spencer
Chapter 11: Gender, caste, language, and terrain in India's Maoist conflict journalism fieldwork
Ashmi Desai
Chapter 12: Exploring question order-effects: Implications for questionnaire design
Mike Schmierbach and Michael P. Boyle
Section III: Qualitative Research Methods
Section introduction
Michael P. Boyle and Adam M. Rainear
Chapter 13: Four research methods for studying journalists' knowledge and expertise
Zvi Reich, Irit Neumann, Oded Jackman, Liri Bloom and Tal Mishaly
Chapter 14: Qualitative analysis in fact-checking methodology research: Semi-structured, in-depth interviews
Victoria Moreno-Gil
Chapter 15: Journalism and autoethnography: An explication and application
James A. Ford and Richard D. Besel
Chapter 16: Focus groups in journalism research: A reappraisal
Martin J. Riedl, Gina M. Masullo, and Tamar Wilner
Chapter 17: Discourses of a shortage: News sharing on social media during the 2022 infant formula crisis
Alison N. Novak
Chapter 18: Interviews and focus groups within journalists in Pakistan's conflict zone: Methodological and ethical challenges
Sayyed Fawad Ali Shah & Shabir Hussain
Chapter 19: Gender sensitive journalism education in Kashmir: An exploratory study
Paromita Pain, Aaliya Ahmed, and Zara Malik Khaled
Section IV: Quantitative Research Methods
Section introduction
Michael P. Boyle and Adam M. Rainear
Chapter 20: Cognitive barriers to select news from distrusted sources: An eye tracking examination of expectancy violation perceptions
Robin Blom
Chapter 21: Effects of collectivism in perceptions of websites and discussion forums: A comparison between national vs. individual-level differences
Maria D. Molina and Mike Schmierbach
Chapter 22: The necessity and sufficiency of intercoder reliability and other contemporary issues in content analyses
Cory L. Armstrong and Fangfang Gao
Chapter 23: Stimulus creation for experiments: A case study using media literacy videos
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Alyssa Appelman, Mike Schmierbach, and Michael P. Boyle
Chapter 24: Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling and journalism studies: A case study of UK news coverage using Freedom of Information (FOI) requests
Jingrong Tong
Chapter 25: Cancer information overload and message fatigue: The overload-fatigue model and dispositional origins
Jakob D. Jensen, Rachel A. Katz, Helen M. Lillie, Manusheela Pokharel, Dallin R. Adams, and Sean Upshaw
Section V: Analyzing and Reporting Data
Section introduction
Michael P. Boyle and Adam M. Rainear
Chapter 26: Planning, conducting, and presenting visual journalism research: Considerations for visual data collection, analysis, and publication
T.J. Thomson
Chapter 27: Using newsroom reconstruction to understand metacognition in journalism
Patrick R. Johnson
Chapter 28: Exploring news consumption as an independent and dependent variable
L. Meghan Mahoney and Tang Tang
Chapter 29: Applying responsible research and innovation (RRI) as a method in journalism research
Astrid Gynnild and Anja Salzman
Chapter 30: "Flow" as the new unit of analysis: Introducing snowball crawling and named-entity recognition as a methodological toolkit for media research
Steve Guo and Dan Wang
Chapter 31: Who said what? Studying public opinions with big data methods and discourse perspectives
Xianlin Jin and Xin Sheng
Index