Research Methods for the Marginalized A Communication Approach for Vulnerable Populations

Introduction: Why research methods for the marginalized?

Part I: Vulnerabilities of Race

1. Using community-based participatory research for interventions with hard-to-reach populations

Jennifer Vardeman and Linda Aldoory

2. Trauma-informed outreach with black stakeholders: Lessons on listening during community activism against police brutality

Ashley E. English and Jacqueline Lambiase

3. Navigating co-creative storytelling with culturally and linguistically diverse participants: Ethics, authenticity, and sensemaking

Jenny Zhengye Hou and Greg Hearn

4. Reaching invisible ethnocultural communities: Establishing partnerships with difficult-to-reach populations

Melissa A. Johnson

5. Deservingness and the challenge of studying the unrecognized: Cultivating trust with Russians in exile 

Alexander V. Laskin

Part II: Vulnerabilities of Gender and Sexual Orientation

6. Developing interviewer skill for crisis-affected populations: Insights from the refugee crisis

Staci B. Smith and Brian G. Smith

7. Conducting health campaign research with transgender and gender-diverse individuals: Co-creation as a community-based participatory strategy 

E. Ciszek and Gerold Dermid

8. Biographical-narrative research: Experiences with indigenous women in higher education

Ana Arán Sánchez

9. Navigating the complexities of research with marginalized groups in Turkiye: Methodological challenges and strategies

Mustafa Oz, Akan Yanık, and Mikail Batu

Part III: Vulnerabilities of Status

10. Studying those who suffer for truth-telling: Navigating recruitment, emotional dissonance, and representation in whistleblowing research 

Brian K. Richardson

11. Digital inclusion for justice-impacted communities: Empirical research, community partnerships and evidence-based interventions with women in the carceral system 

Hyunjin Seo

12. Action-inspired research for income inequality: Championing voice for low-income women 

Katie R. Place

13. Appalachian social cohesion: Interviewing, engagement and participant observation in rural Appalachian media markets

Mildred F. Perreault and Gregory P. Perreault

14. ‘About us not without us’: Including the expertise of lived experience in a participatory action research project about homelessness

Laura Moorhead

Part IV: Vulnerabilities of Place

15. Vulnerabilities of war, violence, and virus: Co-constructing the relationally attentive approach to engaged scholarship in post-civil war and Ebola-torn Liberia

Stacey L. Connaughton and Arunima Krishna

16. Research on the road: Empowering narrators at the margins through oral history

Mark Dolan

17. Hybrid participatory processes in liminal communities: Methods of analysis and intervention

Andrea Volterrani

18. Navigating power dynamics in community-centered research design in the global south

Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

19. Collecting context and seeking sensitivity: Insights from in-depth interviews with migration NGOs in Austria

Daniela V. Dimitrova and Natalia I. Cartagena Díaz

20. Navigating university bureaucracy in participatory methods: The case of a colonia

Keri K. Stephens and Samanta Varela Castro

Part V: Vulnerabilities of the Individual

21. Beyond stereotypes: Empowering methods in disability research in media and communication

Edward Timke

22. Mental illness advocacy: A feminist epistemological approach to learning from the mental health community

Tiffany Gallicano

23. Adolescents as vulnerable population in the online environment: A collaborative citizen science project

Ellen Van Houtven and Desiree Schmuck

24. Tapping autistic expertise: Inclusive peer review by autistic scholars in autism inclusion-related inquiry

Jess Block Nerren

25. The invisible struggle: Navigating stigma and distrust in mental illness research

Zakia Clay

Biography

Staci B. Smith is visiting scholar at the University of Mississippi, USA.

Brian G. Smith is Professor and department Chair of Integrated Marketing Communications at the University of Mississippi, USA.

“There is a need for careful, extensive, and grounded discussion of the complexities of researching in/with vulnerable and marginalized communities, and in this book, an excellent, international group of authors who speak with care and experience to this topic offer their valuable insights.”

Erica Scharrer, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA