Anders Hansen is Associate Professor in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester, UK.David Machin is Professor at the School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University, Sweden.

• Preface to the second edition1. Introduction to media and communication research2. The research process3. Researching ownership and media policy4. Ethnography and observational methods5. Content analysis6. Critical Discourse Analysis7. Analysing narratives and discourse schema8. Analysing photographs and video9. Survey research10. Focus group interviewing11. Managing and analysing communications research dataGlossaryReferencesSubject indexAuthor/name index.

This is an accessible and established handbook for students of media and communications research. It is well contextualised historically and conceptually and provides a comprehensive guide to research procedures in the field.