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| Focus Groups in Media Research× | Experience Sampling in Media Research× | |
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| Field | Communication | Communication |
| Family | Process / pipeline | Process / pipeline |
| Year of origin≠ | 1996 | 1987 |
| Originator≠ | Focus-group tradition (Merton; systematized by Morgan) | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi & Reed Larson |
| Type≠ | Moderated group discussion to elicit audience meanings and responses | Momentary self-report of media use and experience in real time |
| Seminal source≠ | Morgan, D. L. (1996). Focus groups. Annual Review of Sociology, 22, 129–152. DOI ↗ | Csikszentmihalyi, M., & Larson, R. (1987). Validity and reliability of the experience-sampling method. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 175(9), 526–536. DOI ↗ |
| Aliases | Media focus groups, Audience focus group method, Group interview for media research, Medya Araştırmalarında Odak Grupları | ESM for media use, Ecological momentary assessment of media, Media experience sampling, Medya Araştırmalarında Deneyim Örnekleme |
| Related | 4 | 4 |
| Summary≠ | A focus group is a moderated discussion among a small group of participants, used in media research to explore how audiences interpret, talk about, and respond to media content. Its distinctive value lies in the group interaction itself: participants build on, challenge, and refine one another's views, surfacing shared meanings and contested interpretations that individual interviews or surveys would not reveal. | The experience-sampling method (ESM), also called ecological momentary assessment, prompts participants at sampled moments throughout daily life to report what they are doing, using, and feeling right now. Applied to media research, it captures media use and its momentary correlates — mood, context, motivation — in real time and in situ, minimizing recall bias and revealing how media and experience interrelate moment to moment. |
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