We are very pleased to announce the publication of Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research (Palgrave Macmillan 2016). The book engages with the need to rethink established methods to research acute changes in the media environment. The book gathers chapters dedicated to the multifacetedness and liveliness of emerging methods while embedding them in the rich history of interdisciplinary empirical research. Innovation here is a call for widening and rethinking research methods to stimulate a sophisticated debate on and exploration of contemporary methodological approaches for scholars at various levels of academic life. Accompanied by introductory sections of prominent scholars (Saskia Sassen, Noortje Marres, Sarah Pink and Lev Manovich), the majority of empirical studies gathered in this volume are accomplished through early-career scholars who strive to advance cutting-edge and in parts even provocative approaches for the study of media and communication. We truly hope that the book will a valuable resource for doing research as well as for assisting teaching by providing a methods book that draws together a diverse and eclectic range of material that is presented in accessible and stimulating form. Endorsed by Jean Burgess, Jack Qiu and Helen Kennedy, Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research is available as softcover and eBook at https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319406992 <https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319406992> or https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319406992 <https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319406992> (and all online/offline bookstores). Best wishes - Sebastian and Anne P.S. This is what the table of contents looks like Foreword by Nick Couldry 1 Sebastian Kubitschko and Anne Kaun: An introduction to innovative methods in media and communication research Part I: Materiality (introduced by Saskia Sassen) 2 Jess Baines: Engaging (past) participants: the case of radicalprintshops.org <http://radicalprintshops.org/> 3 Erin Despard: A materialist media ecological approach to studying urban media in/of place 4 Segah Sak: Socio-Spatial approaches for media and communication research Part II: Technology (introduced by Noortje Marres) 5 Taina Bucher: Neither black nor box: Ways of knowing algorithms 6 Pablo R. Velasco: Sketching Bitcoin: Empirical research of digital affordances 7 Richard Huskey: Beyond blobology: Using psychophysiological interaction analyses to investigate the neural basis of human communication phenomena 8 Alberto Frigo: As we should think? Lifelogging as a re-emerging method Part III: Experience (introduced by Sarah Pink) 9 Emily LaDue: Visual ethnography and the city: On the dead ends of reflexivity and gentrification 10 Paola Sartoretto: Exploring inclusive ethnography as a methodology to account for multiple experiences 11 Neha Kumar: Interviewing against odds Part IV: Visualization (introduced by Lev Manovich) 12 Jonathan Gray, Liliana Bounegru, Stefania Milan and Paolo Ciuccarelli: Ways of seeing data: Towards a critical literacy for data visualizations as research objects and research devices 13 Luca Simeone and Paolo Patelli: Urban Sensing: potential and limitations of social network analysis and data visualization as research methods in urban studies 14 Nicolas Baya-Laffite and Jean-Philippe Cointet: Mapping topics in international climate negotiations: a computer-assisted semantic network approach 15 Katharina Lobinger: ‘Creative’ and participatory visual approaches in audience research Sebastian Kubitschko and Anne Kaun: Innovative methods in media and communication research: An outlook