Table of contents for Topical issues in communications and media research / Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo, editor.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Excitement in the field (Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo, Monash University, Australia)
Chapter 2. Critical Discourse Analysis and Social Semiotics: Rethinking Text and Discourse in Media and 
Communications Research (Sue Yell, Monash University, Australia)
Chapter 3. Cultural Literacy, the Media and the Public Sphere: Implications for Communication Research (Tony 
Schirato, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand)
Chapter 4. Prospects for Agenda-setting Research in the 21st Century (Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo, Monash University, 
Australia)
Chapter 5. New Information Technologies and Research Ethics: A Critical Appraisal (Wisdom J. Tettey, University of 
Calgary)
Chapter 6. Action Research in the Design of New Media and ICT Systems (Greg Hearn and Marcus Foth, Queensland 
University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia)
Chapter 7. Processual Media Theory and the Study of New Media: Towards a New Research Approach (Ned Rossiter 
and Simon Cooper, Monash University, Australia)
Chapter 8. An Eclectic Feminist Framework for Critically Evaluating Women and Communication Technology 
Projects (June Lennie, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia)
Chapter 9. Phenomenology, Economic History and Mass Communication Research: Lessons from the Australian 
Music Industry (David Rooney, University of Queensland)
Chapter 10. Focus Group Research: Towards an Applicable Model for Africa (Margaret Ivy Amoakohene, University 
of Ghana)
Index.

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Communication -- Research.
Mass media -- Research.