Contributors: Fred Wester, Gaye Tuchman, Horace W. Newcomb, Teun A. van Dijk, Peter Larsen, Dave Morley, Roger Silverstone, Michael Schudson, Michael Green, Kurt Lang, Gladys Engel Lang

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A Handbook of Qualitative Methodologies for Mass Communication Research

A critical review of Dutch drugs ethnography over the past two decades addresses the importance of fieldnotes and the influence of the wider policy context on the research process. Three generations of Dutch drugs ethnographers are distinguished. In the work of the first generation, fieldnotes played a primary role in the research process. This value was tied to the policy need to have first-hand knowledge of drug users themselves in order to formulate policy. The second generation created an equal partnership between qualitative and quantitative research to serve the needs of the consolidation of the national harm reduction policy. The third generation discounted ethnography as the policy shifted away from the needs of the drug users to the nuisance they caused for public security. The review concludes that the future of Dutch drugs ethnograph lies in a revival of the original interests fortified by new technologies and methodological insights. A more balanced approach between drug users, academics and p...

Where have all the Fieldnotes Gone? The Changing Nature and Politics of Drugs Ethnography in the Netherlands

In the last decade, many publications have been devoted to the methodology of qualitative analysis. Here, the role of the computer in the process of qualitative analysis is discussed. With the grounded theory approach as a methodological background, a stepwise procedure is proposed for the analysis of qualitative (textlike) data. 1 Schema, 13 References. HA

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V. A. M. Peters

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