The Living Handbook is intended to be used as a content support and resource for the students of a Master's Degree in Communication at Pompeu Fabra University.

This method aims to increase the academic performance and motivation of students to participate in the educational process. It also increases the students' desire to learn, awakening their curiosity for the topics covered in class, giving way to individual research, developing independence in learning.

The Living Handbook system allows students to learn according to their own abilities, time and pace of learning, giving them freedom and flexibility.

This type of book helps students to know how to search for information, contrast sources and synthesize the contents. It also helps them to write their own texts setting out the information studied previously in an objective way so that it can be part of the contents to be studied in the book.

The Living Handbook of Reseacrh Methods in Communication is based on the Handbook of Narratology, first published by Walter de Gruyter in 2009 and now available in its second, completely revised and expanded edition of 2014. In 2009, the online version was launched and it was decided to call it live because of its dynamic character. 

Editors:

• Javier Diaz Noci
• Lluis Codina Bonilla
• Pere Freixa Font
• Lara Perez Altable
• Rafael Pedraza Jiménez
• Carlos Lopezosa García

Editor-in-Chief:

• Javier Diaz Noci