Methodology
All of this literature serves to prepare us for a case study of how the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (NSS) aims to construct a different way of thinking about the communities it serves. In order to conduct such a study, we shall decide on a theoretical framework from which to develop the key questions that will guide this research. We shall then determine relevant contexts and sources from which to draw answers to these questions as well as how best to evaluate them.
Why a case study as a research method?
Brown (2008) argued that case studies can contribute to scholars’ knowledge of organizational culture by providing rich and significant insights into events and behaviors as well as descriptive details about how a workplace functions and increased understanding of particular phenomena. Meyer and Daniels (2012) found that case study is among the most common methods used to study community journalism. They also wrote that the method sufficiently enables a researcher to go in depth to study a single journalistic website that incorporates the community as a necessary component but, as is the case with NNS, does not use categorizing terms such as community journalism or public (or civic) journalism or even citizen journalism.
Why a case study as a research method?
Brown (2008) argued that case studies can contribute to scholars’ knowledge of organizational culture by providing rich and significant insights into events and behaviors as well as descriptive details about how a workplace functions and increased understanding of particular phenomena. Meyer and Daniels (2012) found that case study is among the most common methods used to study community journalism. They also wrote that the method sufficiently enables a researcher to go in depth to study a single journalistic website that incorporates the community as a necessary component but, as is the case with NNS, does not use categorizing terms such as community journalism or public (or civic) journalism or even citizen journalism.
