Ethnography’s Contribution to Newspaper Analysis: Claims-Making Revisited. CES Papers - Open Forum #12, 2012

Newspaper data are a popular data source for studies across the social sciences. This paper empirically examines the widespread criticisms that this data is hampered by selection, description and researcher bias. It does so by taking one of the most authoritative European comparative research projects ‘Mobilisation on Ethnic Relations, Citizenship and Immigration’ (MERCI) as its case study given that the resulting publications have inspired many researches on both sides of the Atlantic to apply the so-called ‘claims-making’ method (e.g. Koopmans, Statham, Giugni and Passy 2005). Drawing on the author’s familiarity with the Dutch part of the data set and field specific expertise, this paper qualitatively re-analyses the claims recorded for Surinamese, Turkish and Kurdish migrants in the Netherlands and reviews the conclusions for migrant transnationalism and integration in particular. It reveals how an ethnographic approach can tackle description bias and researcher unreliability and brings selection bias into full view. While offering concrete suggestions for incorporating ethnography into newspaper analysis, it also exposes the limits of these methods for the study of cross-border activities such as migrant transnationalism.

Anna Popovitch,In the Shadow of Althusser: Culture and Politics in Late Twentieth-Century Argentina, Ann Arbor, umi Dissertation Publishing, 2011, 238 páginas

Fil: Starcenbaum, Marcelo. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina.

Johnnie Doolittle, General Doolittle's son, in dorm room, with newspaper headline of Tokyo raid. 5/20/1942

(Ivory took photos for A.P.)

The Commercial & financial chronicle ... : a weekly newspaper representing the industrial interests of the United States.

Microform.

In the matter of: public hearing before Special Industry Committee no. 41-C for the paper, paper products, printing, and publishing industry in Puerto Rico. 17, 18, and 19 September, 1958 ... San Juan, Puerto Rico. Reporters: John F. Hrozencik [and] Genevieve Biolsi.

Maynard E. Pirsig, chairman.

In the matter of: Public hearing before Special industry committee no. 32-C for the paper, paper products, printing and publishing industry in Puerto Rico. August 29-30, 1957. Reporters: James A. Brownlee and John F. Hrozencik.

Mode of access: Internet.

Occupational employment survey booklet of definitions : printing, publishing, and allied industries.

"Approval expires: 3-31-93."

Red Star on military affairs, 1945-1952 ; a selected, annotated list of articles in the Soviet military newspaper /

U.S. Air Force Project Rand.

Newspaper days.

Originally published under title: A book about myself.