Course Description

Media, Information and Technoculture 245a/b Designing and Critiquing Research Methods for the Digital Age

An introduction to the range of research methods appropriate for understanding scholarship in the field of communications, information and media, including survey research, polls, interviewing, content analysis, and ethnography. Students will study specific research methods in the context of the media-related research problems that these methods have been used to address.

Antirequisite: Media, Information and Technoculture 301a/b, Sociology 231

Prerequisite: Registration in the second, third or fourth year of an MIT program, or permission of the Faculty.

3 lecture hours, half course

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