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Looking Again at Findings: Secondary Analysis

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Secondary analysis of the findings of over two dozen research projects by this author addressing a variety of types of information policy and/or journalism questions over almost three dozen years yields a great deal of analytical value for those studying contemporary governance issues raised by uses of algorithms in the news, whether undertaken by public or private sector entities. Details of this case demonstrate the value of this type of secondary analysis as a research method in its own right, particularly useful when addressing what is being experienced as the “new” new technology, and particularly useful early on in such research projects.

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  1. Department of Communication, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

    Sandra Braman

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  1. Department of Communication, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA

    Hilde Van den Bulck

  2. Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

    Manuel Puppis

  3. Department of Communication Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

    Karen Donders

  4. Department of Communication Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

    Leo Van Audenhove

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Braman, S. (2019). Looking Again at Findings: Secondary Analysis. In: Van den Bulck, H., Puppis, M., Donders, K., Van Audenhove, L. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16065-4_38

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