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Media Analysis & Methodology

  • Altheide, D. L. (1987). Ethnographic Content Analysis. Qualitative sociology, 10(1), 65.
  • Altheide, L. D. (1996). Qualitative Media Analysis. Qualitative Research Methods Series (Vol. 38, pp. 87). California: Sage Publications.
  • Bignell, J. (2002). Media Semiotics: An Introduction, Second Edition: Manchester University Press.
  • Bottoms, A. (2007). The Relationship between Theory and Emperical Observations in Criminology. In R. King & E. Wincup (Eds.), Doing Research on Crime and Justice (pp. 75-116): OUP Oxford.
  • Bryant, J., & Miron, D. (2004). Theory and Research in Mass Communication. Journal of Communication, 54(4), 662-704.
  • Bryman, A. (2012). Social Research Methods: OUP Oxford.
  • Chandler, D. (2006). Semiotics for Beginners. Retrieved from http://books.google.be/books?id=PxAgSwAACAAJ
  • Durham, M. G., & Kellner, D. M. (2009). Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks: Wiley.
  • Dyer, R. (2013). The Matter of Images: Essays on Representations: Taylor & Francis.
  • McGarty, C., Yzerbyt, V. Y., & Spears, R. (2002). Stereotypes as Explanations: The Formation of Meaningful Beliefs about Social Groups: Cambridge University Press.
  • Thwaites, T., Davis, L., & Mules, W. (2002). Introducing Cultural and Media Studies: A Semiotic Approach, Second Edition: Palgrave Macmillan.

Media & Theoretical Perspectives

On representation & Stereotype:

  • Entman, R. M. (1993). Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm. Journal of Communication, 43(4), 51-58.
  • Forman, M. (2000). ‘Represent’: Race, Space and Place in Rap Music Popular Music, 19(1), 65.
  • Fourie, P. J. (2010). Media Studies: Policy, Management and Media Representation: Juta Academic.
  • Gorham, B. W. (1999). Stereotypes in the Media: So What? Howard Journal of Communications, 10(4), 229-247.
  • Hall, S. (1978). Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order: Holmes & Meier.
  • Hall, S. (1997). Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices: Sage Publications.
  • Hall, S., David, M., & Chen, K. H. (1996). Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated.
  • Lacey, N. (2009). Image and Representation: Key Concepts in Media Studies: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Linn, T. (2003). Media Methods That Lead to Stereotypes. In P. M. Lester & S. D. Ross (Eds.), Images That Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media (pp. 23-28): Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated.
  • Pickering, M. (2001). Stereotyping: The Politics of Representation: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Reid, J. (2010). Representation redefined. In P. J. Fourie (Ed.), Media Studies: Policy, Management and Media Representation: Juta.
  • Reiner, R. (2007). Media-made Criminality: the Representation of Crime in the Mass Media. In M. Maguire, M. Rodney & R. Reiner (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (Fourth ed., pp. 302-339). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Schiappa, E. (2008). Beyond Representational Correctness: Rethinking Criticism of Popular Media: State University of New York Press.
  • Surette, R. (2010). Media, Crime, and Criminal Justice: Images, Realities, and Policies: Cengage Learning.

Globalisation & Transmediation:

  • Appadurai, A. (1996a). Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (pp. 48-56). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Appadurai, A. (1996b). Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Appadurai, A. (2004). Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy. In F. J. Lechner & J. Boli (Eds.), The Globalization Reader (pp. 321-330). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
  • Jenkins, H. (2004). The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 7(1), 33-43.
  • Jenkins, H. (2006a). Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide: NYU Press.
  • Jenkins, H. (2006b). Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture: New York University Press.
  • Jenkins, H. (2010). Transmedia Storytelling and Entertainment: An annotated Syllabus. Continuum, 24(6), 943-958.
  • Jenkins, R. (2014). Social Identity: Taylor & Francis.
  • Klastrup, L., & Tosca, S. (2004, 18-20 Nov. 2004). Transmedial Worlds – Rethinking Cyberworld Design. Paper presented at the Cyberworlds, 2004 International Conference on.
  • McLuhan, M., & Powers, B. R. (1992). The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century: Oxford University Press.

Media as Myth and Stories:

  • Barthes, R. (1957). Le Mythe Aujourd’hui Mythologies (pp. 181-233). Paris: Éditions du Seuil.
  • Barthes, R., & Lavers, A. (1973 (1957)). Mythologies (Translated from the French Mythologies (c) 1957 by Editions du Seuil, Paris). New York: The Noonday Press.Bell, A. (1999). News Stories as Narratives. In A. Jaworski & N. Coupland (Eds.), The Discourse Reader (pp. 236-251): Routledge.
  • Bell, A. (1999). News Stories as Narratives. In A. Jaworski & N. Coupland (Eds.), The Discourse Reader (pp. 236-251): Routledge.
  • Bird, E. S., & Dardenne, R. W. (1997). Myth, Chronicle and Story: Exploring the Narrative Qualities of News. In D. A. Berkowitz (Ed.), Social Meanings of News: A Text-Reader (pp. 332-350): SAGE Publications.
  • Bird, E. S., & Dardenne, R. W. (2009). Rethinking News and Myth as Storytelling. In K. Wahl-Jorgensen & T. Hanitzsch (Eds.), The Handbook of Journalism Studies (pp. 205-2017): Routledge.
  • Bohm, R. M., & Walker, J. T. (2006). Demystifying Crime and Criminal justice: Roxbury Pub.
  • Cohen, S. (2011). Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers: Routledge.
  • Coman, M. (2005). News Stories and Myth – The impossible Reunion. In E. W. Rothenbuhler & M. Coman (Eds.), Media Anthropology (pp. 111-119): SAGE Publications.
  • Eason, D. L. (1982). New Journalism, Metaphor and Culture. The Journal of Popular Culture, XV(4), 142-149.
  • Edelman, M. (1998). Language, Myths and Rhetoric. Society, 35(2), 131-139.
  • Johansen, J. D., Søndergaard, L., & universitetsbibliotek, O. (2010). Fact, Fiction and Faction: University Press of Southern Denmark.
  • Kappeler, V. E., Blumberg, M., & Potter, G. W. (2000). Chapter One: The Social Construction of Crime Myths. In V. E. Kappeler, M. Blumberg & G. W. Potter (Eds.), The Mythology of Crime and Criminal Justice: Waveland Press.
  • Kappeler, V. E., & Potter, G. W. (2005). The Mythology of Crime and Criminal Justice: Waveland Press.
  • Lule, J. (2001). Daily News, Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalism: Guilford Press.
  • Lule, J. (2002). Myth and Terror on the Editorial Page: The New York Times Responds to September, 2011. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 79(2), 275-293.
  • Lule, J. (2005). News as Myth: Daily News and Eternal Stories. In E. W. Rothenbuhler & M. Coman (Eds.), Media Anthropology (pp. 101-110): SAGE Publications.
  • Mason, P. (2007). Misinformation, Myth and Distortion. Journalism Studies, 8(3), 481-496.
  • Nicolaisen, W. F. H. (1987). The Linguistic Structure of Legend. In G. Bennett, P. Smith & J. D. A. Widdowson (Eds.), Vol. 2 of Perspectives on Contemporary Legend (pp. 61-76). Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
  • Nimmo, D. D., & Combs, J. E. (1980). Subliminal politics: myths & mythmakers in America: Prentice-Hall.
  • Nünning, V., Nünning, A., & Neumann, B. (2010). Cultural Ways of Worldmaking: Media and Narratives: De Gruyter.
  • Radford, B. (2003). Media Mythmakers: how Journalists, Activists, and Advertisers Mislead Us: Prometheus Books.
  • Schudson, M. (2005). News as Stories. In E. W. Rothenbuhler & M. Coman (Eds.), Media Anthropology (pp. 121-128): SAGE Publications.
  • Schultz, I. (2007). The Journalistic Gut Feeling. Journalism Practice, 1(2), 190-207.

Media Enjoyment & Fiction:

  • Blumler, J. G., Gurevitch, M., & Katz, E. (1985). Reaching Out: a Future for Gratifications Research. In K. E. Rosengren, L. A. Wenner & P. Palmgreen (Eds.), Media Gratifications Research: Current Perspectives (pp. 255-227). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
  • Boran, A. (2002). Crime: Fear Or Fascination?, Papers from a Conference Held at Chester College of Higher Education, November 2000: Chester Academic Press.
  • Cohen, J., & Weimann, G. (2000). Cultivation Revisited: Some Genres Have some Effects on some Viewers. Communication Reports, 13(2), 99-114.
  • Cressey, P. G. (1938). The Motion Picture Experience as Modified by Social Background and Personality. American Sociological Review, 3(4), 516-525.
  • Friend, S. (2010). Getting Carried Away: Evaluating the Emotional Influence of Fiction Film. Midwest Studies In Philosophy, 34(1), 77-105.
  • Gerbner, G. (1970). Cultural Indicators: The Case of Violence in Television Drama. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 388(1), 69-81.
  • Gerrig, R. J. (1993). Experiencing Narrative Worlds: On the Psychological Activities of Reading: Yale University Press.
  • Glasser, T. L. (1982). Play, Pleasure and the Value of Newsreading. Communication Quarterly, 30(2), 101.
  • Green, E. (2008). Crime and Justice Myths. In M. C. Braswell, B. R. McCarthy & B. J. McCarthy (Eds.), Justice, Crime and Ethics (pp. 349 -371): Elsevier Science.
  • Green, M. C., Brock, T. C., & Kaufman, G. F. (2004). Understanding Media Enjoyment: The Role of Transportation Into Narrative Worlds. Communication Theory, 14(4), 311-327.
  • Green, M. C., Garst, J., & Brock, T. C. (2003). The Power of Fiction: Determinants and Boundaries. In L. J. Shrum (Ed.), The Psychology of Entertainment Media: Blurring the Lines Between Entertainment and Persuasion: Taylor & Francis.
  • Mar, R. A., & Oatley, K. (2008). The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3(3), 173-192.
  • Oatley, K. (1999). Why fiction may be Twice as True as Fact: Fiction as Cognitive and Emotional Simulation. Review of General Psychology, 3(2), 101-117.
  • Prince, G. (1982). Narratology: the Form and Functioning of Narrative.
  • Przemieniecki, C. J. (2005). Gang Behavior and Movies: Do Hollywood Gang Films Influence Violent Gang Behavior? Journal of Gang Research, 12(2), 41-71.
  • Raney, A. A., & Bryant, J. (2002). Moral Judgment and Crime Drama: An Integrated Theory of Enjoyment. Journal of Communication, 52(2), 402-415.
  • Ricœur, P. (1991). Imagination in Discourse and in Action. In P. Ricœur (Ed.), From text to action: Essays in Hermeneutics II (pp. 168-187). Evanston: Illinois: Northwestern University Press.
  • Ricœur, P. (1979). The Function of Fiction in Shaping Reality. Man and World, 12(2), 123-141.
  • Thrasher, F. M. (1949). The Comics and Delinquency: Cause or Scapegoat. Journal of Educational Sociology, 23(4), 195-205.
  • Van den Bulck, J. (2013). Cultivation Theory: Television Fiction as a Vector of Socialization. In A. Valdivia (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies (pp. 1-26). Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.

The Media Industry & News Values=

  • Cottle, S. (2003). Media Organization and Production: SAGE Publications.
  • Fuller, J. (1996). News Values: Ideas for an Information Age: University of Chicago Press.
  • Harcup, T., & O’Neill, D. (2001). What Is News? Galtung and Ruge revisited. Journalism Studies, 2(2), 261-280.
  • Katz, J. (1987). What makes Crime `News’? Media, Culture, Society, 9(1), 47-75.
  • McCombs, M. (2005). The Agenda-setting Function of the Press. In G. Overholser & K. H. Jamieson (Eds.), The Institutions of American Democracy: The Press (pp. 156-168): Oxford University Press, USA.

Case Studies of Qualitative Content Analysis

  • Barnett, B. (2006). Medea in the Media: Narrative and Myth in Newspaper Coverage of Women who Kill their Children. Journalism, 7(4), 411-432.
  • Esbensen, F.-A., & Tusinski, K. E. (2007). Youth Gangs in the Print Media. Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, 14(1), 21-38.
  • Galtung, J., & Ruge, M. H. (1965). The Structure of Foreign News: The Presentation of the Congo, Cuba and Cyprus Crises in Four Norwegian Newspapers. Journal of Peace Research, 2(1), 64-90.
  • Greer, C. (2012). Sex crimes and the Media: Press Representations in Northern Ireland. In P. Mason (Ed.), Criminal Visions: Media Representations of Crime and Justice: Taylor & Francis.

Weblogs/Facebook

  • Blinka, L., & Šmahel, D. (2008). Matching Reality and Virtuality: Are Adolescents Lying on their Weblogs? In S. F., H., Hrachovec, and C., Ess (Ed.), Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (pp. 457-561). Murdoch: Murdoch university.
  • Blood, R. (Ed.). (2002). We’ve Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture (1 ed.). New York: Basic Books.
  • Bottici, C. (2007). A Philosophy of Political Myth: Cambridge University Press.
  • Nowson, S., & Oberlander, J. (2006). The identity of Bloggers: Openness and Gender in Personal Weblogs. Paper presented at the workshop ‘Computational Approaches to Analysing Weblogs,’ Stanford.
  • Papacharissi, Z. (2002). The Presentation of Self in Virtual Life: Characteristics of Personal Home Pages. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 79(3), 643-660.
  • Scheidt, L. (2006). Adolescent Diary Weblogs and the Unseen Audience. In D. Buckingham, and Willett, Rebekah (Ed.), Digital Generations: Children, Young People and New Media. London: Lawrence Erlbaum.