Elite interviews provide valuable information from perspectives of power and privilege.
However, the information elites provide may be biased or inaccurate, and researchers must …

RT (formerly, Russia Today) is one of the most important organizations in the global political
economy of disinformation. It is the most richly funded, well-staffed, formal organization in …

Addressing the complexity, flexibility, and controversies of qualitative research's many
genres, Designing Qualitative Research, Sixth Edition gives students, research managers …

How do you start to conduct your own research? Where do you go to get ideas? How do you
design a good research project? How does it relate to the rest of your studies? What is the …

Social science methods literature identifies gaining access as one of the main challenges of
conducting elite interview research. However, the existing literature mostly fails to provide …

Reflexivity is the nature of qualitative research (Lincoln and Guba, 1985; Morgan an
Smircich, 1980); implying that through reflectivity exercises researchers are able to …

This book analyzes how and why Al Jazeera English (AJE) became the channel of choice to
understand the massive protests across the Arab world 2011. Aiming to explain the 'Al …

This chapter is multipronged, broadly evaluating women in gang ethnography. First, the
chapter provides an overview of the women who have produced notable works in this area …

The main objective of this article is to analyse the sport place branding strategy of Qatar, a
Persian Gulf country that is using the income from the commercialisation of its gas to create …

This framing study compares Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya coverage of the Israel–Palestine
conflict during the 2008/2009 Gaza conflict and one year later, during a period of calm …