Monday, November 07, 2011

Some Media Anthropology Definitions

Cross-disciplinary:
It describes any method, project & research activity that examines a subject outside the scope of its own discipline without cooperation or integration from other relevant disciplines. In cross-disciplinary, topics are studied using foreign methodologies of unrelated disciplines, for example Ethics in clinical research & occupational health.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossdisciplinarity


Inter-disciplinary: 
It involves the combining of two or more academic fields into one single discipline. An inter-disciplinary field crosses traditional boundaries between academic disciplines or schools of thoughts, as needs & professions have emerged.
Originally the term inter-disciplinary is applied within education & training pedagogies to describe studies that use methods & insights of several established disciplines or traditional fields of study. Inter-disciplinary involves researchers, students & teachers in the goal of connecting & integrating several academic schools of thoughts, professions or technologies – along with their specific perspective – in the pursuit of common task.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinarity


Trans-disciplinary:
It connotes a research strategy that crosses many disciplinary boundaries to create a holistic approach. It applies to research efforts focused on problems that cross the boundaries of two or more discipline, such as research on effective information systems for biomedical research & can refer to concepts or methods that were originally developed by one discipline, but are now used by several others, such as ethnography, a field research method originally developed in anthropology but now widely used by other disciplines.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdisciplinarity


Qualitative research:
It is a method enquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, traditionally in the social sciences, but also in market research & further context. Qualitative researchers aim to gather an in-depth understanding of human behavior & reasons that govern such behavior. The qualitative method investigates the why & how of decision making, not just what, where, when. Hence, smaller but focused samples are more often needed than large samples.
In conventional view, qualitative methods produce information only on the particular cases studied, & any more general conclusions are only propositions.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research#cite_note-0


Ethnographic research:
Ethnography is the study of living culture, & ethnographic research is the methodology & results of studying ethnography.
Traditionally, ethnographers study non-industrial cultures in America, Africa, Asia & other continents, but today they are increasingly interested in modern post-industrial society.

Source: http://www.ehow.com/facts_5804505_definition-ethnographic-research.html

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