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In this chapter we discuss our research design, in order to help explain both the insights and the limitations of the results we present in subsequent chapters. Research is not a neutral conduit that extracts the ‘truth’ about a topic or about what participants ‘really’ feel and think about it. Our findings were shaped by our methods, the contexts in which we worked, the relationships that existed between participants before the research process began, as well as those created during it; and then again by our processes of analysis and interpretation.
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© 2004 David Buckingham and Sara Bragg
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Buckingham, D., Bragg, S. (2004). Talking Dirty — Research Methods. In: Young People, Sex and the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230508637_2
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