Routledge Handbook of Applied Communication Research
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-8058-4984-4
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 10th June 2009
- Pages: 712
About the Book
The Routledge Handbook of Applied Communication Research provides a state-of-the-art review of communication scholarship that addresses real-world concerns, issues, and problems. This comprehensive examination of applied communication research—including its foundations, research methods employed, significant issues confronted, important contexts in which such research has been conducted, and overviews of some exemplary programs of applied communication research—shows how such research has and can make a difference in the world and in people’s lives.
The sections and chapters in this Handbook:
- explain what constitutes applied communication scholarship, encompassing a wide range of approaches and clarifying relationships among theoretical perspectives, methodological procedures, and applied practices;
- demonstrate the breadth and depth of applied communication scholarship;
- review and synthesize literature about applied communication areas and topics in coherent, innovative, and pedagogically sound ways; and
- set agendas for future applied communication scholarship.
Unique to this volume are chapters presenting exemplary programs of applied communication research that demonstrate the principles and practices of such scholarship, written by the scholars who conducted the programs.
As an impressive benchmark in the ongoing growth and development of communication scholarship, editors Lawrence R. Frey and Kenneth N. Cissna provide an exceptional resource that will help new and experienced scholars alike to understand, appreciate, and conduct high-quality communication research that can positively affect people’s lives.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part 1: Foundations of Applied Communication Research 1. The Development of Applied Communication Research 2. Across Applied Divides: Great Debates of Applied Communication Scholarship 3. Practical Theory in Applied Communication Scholarship Part 2: Methods of Applied Communication Research 4. Using Quantitative Methods to Conduct Applied Communication Research 5. Rhetorical Methods of Applied Communication Scholarship 6. Ethnography in Applied Communication Research 7. Discourse Analysis: The Practice and Practical Value of Taping, Transcribing, and Analyzing Talk Part 3: Issues in Applied Communication Research 8. Positioning Gender as Fundamental in Applied Communication Research: Taking a Feminist Turn 9. Race as Political Identity: Problematic Issues for Applied Communication Research 10. Technology in/as Applied Communication Research 11. Managing a World of Problems: The Implications of Globalization for Applied Communication Research 12. Applied Communication Ethics: A Summary and Critique of the Research Literature Part 4: Contexts of Applied Communication Research 13. Family as Agency of Potential: Toward a Positive Ontology of Applied Family Communication Theory and Research 14. Organizational Communication and Applied Communication Research: Parallels, Intersections, Integration, and Engagement 15. In the Public Interest: Communication in Nonprofit Organizations 16. Health Communication as Applied Communication Inquiry 17. Communication in the Helping Professions 18. Aging and Applied Communication Research 19. Applied Political Communication Research 20. Applied Communication Research in Educational Contexts 21. Communication for Participatory Development: Dialogue, Action, and Change Part 5: Exemplary Programs of Applied Communication Research 22. Drug Resistance Strategies Project: Using Narrative Theory to Enhance Adolescents’ Communication Competence 23. Applied Research on Group Decision Support Systems: The Minnesota GDSS Project 24. Fear Appeals and Public Health: Managing Fear and Creating Hope 25. The Multiple Faces of the Public Dialogue Consortium: Scholars, Practitioners, and Dreamers of Better Social Worlds
About the Author(s)
Lawrence R. Frey (PhD, University of Kansas, 1979) is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on applied communication, quantitative and qualitative research methods, and group interaction. His applied communication scholarship focuses on communication activism, social justice, community studies, and health communication. He is the author or editor of 15 books, 3 special journal issues, and more than 65 journal articles and book chapters; and the recipient of 14 awards for scholarship, including the 2000 Gerald M. Phillips Award for Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship from the National Communication Association (NCA).
Kenneth N. Cissna (PhD, University of Denver, 1975) is a professor and chair of the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in interpersonal communication, group communication, and dialogue theory and practice. He has published scores of scholarly book chapters and journal articles, and five books. He served as editor of the Journal of Applied Communication Research and of the Southern Communication Journal, and is past president of both the Florida Communication Association and the Southern States Communication Association (SSCA). His awards include SSCA’s 2007 T. Earle Johnson—Edwin Paget Distinguished Service Award and NCA’s 2008 Gerald M. Phillips Award for Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship.
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