Dennis List wrote a shorter guide to audience research than Know Your Audience. This new Quick Guide is focused on the needs of media, particularly in developing countries. In just over 50 large-format pages, it covers these topics...
2. Beginning with secondary research
- Situation analysis
- Impact assessment
3. The survey process
- Sampling
- Writing a questionnaire
- Gathering data
- Processing the data
- Analysis
4. Interviewer surveys
- Face-to-face surveys
- Telephone surveys
- Observation
5. Questionnaire surveys
- Mail surveys
- In-publication questionnaires
- Visitor surveys
- Audience workshops
- Internet surveys
6. Qualitative research
- In-depth interviews
- Consensus groups
- Response cultivation
7. How to choose a method
- Whether to do a survey
- Choosing a survey method
- Choosing a qualitative method
8. Conclusion: Use your findings!
Appendixes
1. Simple 1-page questionnaire
2. Glossary of audience research terms
Though Know Your Audience is a much bigger book - about 10 times as many words, this new Quick Guide includes two sections that are not covered in the former: the section (2.2) on impact assessment, and chapter 7, which sets out criteria for choosing a research method. The Quick Guide is also slanted a little more toward the needs of print media than is Know Your Audience.
Note, the two sections not covered in Know Your Audience are being considered for the revised edition of the book.
The Quick Guide to Audience Research can be downloaded from this link, which will open in a new window. It's a PDF file, so you'll need Acrobat Reader (freely downloadable from www.adobe.com, if your computer doesn't already have that software). The file size is 290 KB, so it will take about 2 minutes to download with a 56K (dial-up) modem running at less than full speed (as is usually the case), and much less if you are using a broadband internet connection.
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If you would like to improve your knowledge and skills beyond Quick Guide to Audience Research then we suggest you consider the book Know your Audience _ A Practical Guide to Media Research.
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