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Comparative media analysis: why some fuzzy thinking might help. Applying fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis to the personalization of mediated political communication
journal contribution
posted on 2013-12-12, 14:56 authored by John DowneyJohn Downey, James StanyerJames StanyerThis article examines the benefits of fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) for comparative media research. It shows the advantages of fuzzy set theoretic thinking in examining the causes of a major feature of contemporary political communication research, namely personalization. The article has three parts. The first is a critique of the method adopted by Hallin and Mancini, a generally laudable and highly influential recent contribution to comparative media analysis. The second is a brief introduction to fsQCA. The third demonstrates the method’s usefulness by investigating the personalized character of mediated political communication.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Citation
DOWNEY, J. and STANYER, J., 2010. Comparative media analysis: why some fuzzy thinking might help. Applying fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis to the personalization of mediated political communication. European Journal of Communication, 25 (4), pp. 331 - 347.Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd / © The authorsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2010Notes
This article was published in the serial, European Journal of Communication [Sage Publications Ltd / © The authors]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267323110384256ISSN
0267-3231Publisher version
Language
- en