Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research

Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research addresses the need for a discipline-cum-methodology-tailored book that navigates the current research spectrum of communication and social media (＂CommSocMed＂). It examines contemporary and relevant issues that intertwine the expansive spheres of CommSocMed.

Authored by professionals with extensive academic and in-depth research and industry experience, the book highlights research-based themes that mirror qualitative and quantitative methodologies vis-à-vis socio-cultural, political, educational, and organisational issues and challenges. The first two sections present the mutually interwoven disciplines of CommSocMed where research works cover a comprehensive range of designs such as narrative analysis, case study, recombinant memetics, discourse analysis, visual semiotics, ethnography, content analysis, feminist theory, descriptive-survey, descriptive-correlational, model-building/testing, experimental, and mixed methods. The third section is a concluding segment which synthesises all the scholarly contributions in this volume.

This book will serve as an authoritative reference for mixed methods research in CommSocMed and will be highly relevant reading for academics, researchers, postgraduate students and undergraduates in communication (for example, instructional communication, marketing communication, organisational communication, political communication, strategic communication), social media, and social sciences.

Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan CMgr FCMI, CSci, FIScT, FHEA, is Head of the Department of Business Administration, University of Technology and Applied Sciences-Ibri (CAS), Sultanate of Oman. He holds a PhD and a Doctor of Communication (DComm) and has published extensively on communication and media studies, business management, and social sciences.

Joanna Soraya Abu Zahari researches actively and has published widely on contemporary issues in social media and communication. She teaches Business Communication and Public Relations and management courses at the Department of Business Administration, University of Technology and Applied Sciences-Ibri (CAS), Sultanate of Oman.