Communication: Communication Research Methods

Methodological and Ontological Principles of Observation and Analysis
Following and Analyzing Things and Beings in Our Everyday World
Edited by François Cooren, Fabienne Malbois
In our daily experiences, we feel, perceive, designate, invoke or comment on other beings that are part of our world, whether these beings are people, artifacts, technologies, institutions, projects, animals, divinities, emotions, cultures, ideologies or opinions. Echoing recent developments in…
Hardback – 2018-10-01
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Routledge Studies in Communication, Organization, and Organizing
Understanding Communication Research Methods
A Theoretical and Practical Approach, 2nd Edition
By Stephen M. Croucher, Daniel Cronn-Mills
Using an engaging how-to approach that draws from scholarship, real-life, and popular culture, this textbook offers students practical reasons why they should care about research methods and a guide to actually conducting research themselves. Examining quantitative, qualitative, and critical…
Paperback – 2018-09-03
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From Student to Scholar
A Guide Through the Dissertation Stage of Doctoral Programs
By Keith Hjortshoj
From Student to Scholar guides graduate students through the "hidden" developmental transition required in writing a dissertation and moving beyond, to become a successful scholar. Identifying common rhetorical challenges across disciplines, author Hjortshoj explains how to accommodate evolving…
Paperback – 2018-08-06
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Writing Center Talk over Time
A Mixed-Method Study
By Jo Mackiewicz
In the last 15 to 20 years, writing centers have placed greater importance on tutor training, focusing on teaching tutors best practices in fostering student writers’ engagement and writing skills. Writing Center Talk over Time explores the importance of writing center talk and demonstrates the…
Hardback – 2018-07-18
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Routledge Research in Writing Studies
Recovering Argument
Edited by Randall Lake
This volume presents the best scholarship from the 19th National Communication Association/American Forensic Association Conference on Argumentation, which took place July 30-August 2, 2015, at Cliff Lodge, Snowbird Resort, in Alta, Utah. The Alta Conference, first held in 1979, is the oldest…
Hardback – 2018-07-06
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Performance Autoethnography
Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Culture, 2nd Edition
By Norman K. Denzin
This book is a manifesto. It is about rethinking performance autoethnography, about the formation of a critical performative cultural politics, about what happens when everything is already performative, when the dividing line between performativity and performance disappears. This is a book about…
Paperback – 2018-04-20
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Performed Ethnography and Communication
Improvisation and Embodied Experience
By D Soyini Madison
Performed Ethnography and Communication explores the relationships between these three key terms, addressing the impact of ethnography and communication on the cutting edge of performance studies. Ranging from digital performance, improvisation and the body, to fieldwork and staged collaboration,…
Paperback – 2018-04-10
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At Home with Grief
Continued Bonds with the Deceased
By Blake Paxton
What would you say to a deceased loved one if they could come back for one day? What if you can’t just ‘move on’ from grief? At Home with Grief: Continued　Bonds　with the Deceased　chronicles Blake Paxton’s autoethnographic study of his continued relationship with his deceased mother. In the 90s,…
Paperback – 2018-02-06
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Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
Communicating Climate Change and Energy Security
New Methods in Understanding Audiences
By Greg Philo, Catherine Happer
This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy Resource Centre (UKERC), examines the contemporary public debate on climate change and the linked issue of energy security. It analyses the key processes which affect the formation of public attitudes and understanding in these areas,…
Paperback – 2018-02-06
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Routledge New Developments in Communication and Society Research
Studies of Video Practices
Video at Work
Edited by Mathias Broth, Eric Laurier, Lorenza Mondada
The last two decades have seen a rapid increase in the production and consumption of video by both professionals and amateurs. The near ubiquity of devices with video cameras and the rise of sites like YouTube have lead to the growth and transformation of the practices of producing, circulating,…
Paperback – 2018-02-05
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Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Researching Virtual Worlds
Methodologies for Studying Emergent Practices
Edited by Louise Phillips, Ursula Plesner
This volume presents a wide range of methodological strategies that are designed to take into account the complex, emergent, and continually shifting character of virtual worlds. It interrogates how virtual worlds emerge as objects of study through the development and application of various…
Paperback – 2018-02-05
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Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
Communicating Hope
An Ethnography of a Children's Mental Health Care Team
By Christine Davis
Kevin is a sometimes-violent teenager with severe emotional disturbance in a family environment of poverty and stress. In this ethnography of a children's mental health care team, communication scholar Christine S. Davis delves deeply into how members of the team create hope for themselves, for…
Paperback – 2018-01-12
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