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Researchers are like detectives. Both are trying to find something
out. Both are asking and answering questions. Both are trying to
put together a puzzle to come up with a solution. In both,
answering questions leads to more questions. And, in both, seeing
patterns is crucial to solving the puzzle. Straight Talk about
Communication Research Methods presents the foundations of research
methods, the choices scholars make, and the methodological
decisions driving communication scholarship to balance one's desire
to know and inquire into interesting communication questions while
instilling an enthusiasm about the process! Featuring a student
friendly writing style, Straight Talk about Communication Research
Methods is built on adult learning theory information is given in
small chunks that build upon each other, repeating then expanding
knowledge. Featuring updated information and examples, the new
third edition of Straight Talk about Communication Research
Methods: Is Modern! The text includes material on conducting
research on, and involving, social and digital media. Is Practical!
Examples of how students might use communication research methods
in business and industry jobs after graduation are integrated
throughout. Is Groundbreaking! The text features four Chapters that
summarize new qualitative research methods along with comprehensive
instructions on how to conduct these research methods. Is
Interactive! A seamlessly integrated enhanced learning package
provides both students and instructors access to online content,
interactive exercises and more.
Despite the fact that focus groups are an ideal research tool for
studying and employing group communication in action, many research
practitioners and scholars have missed the opportunity to utilize
them to their maximum benefit. Few researchers have the skills that
enable them to approach focus group facilitation and analysis from
a communication point of view. In this book, Dr. Christine Davis
teaches readers how to take a project from an idea to the design,
facilitation, and analysis stages. This book takes a unique
communication perspective to apply group communication theories,
knowledge of group processes, and a close discourse analysis
approach to explain and understand the discursive aspect of focus
groups. This book helps readers of all stages of experience -
including those with no background in focus group research to those
practitioners with more focus group expertise - understand how a
communication approach to focus groups takes advantage of this
discipline's rich scholarship in group communication and discourse
analysis. This book will teach readers how to a. understand the
nature of focus group research procedures from a communication
point of view; b. understand how to translate RQs into a focus
group protocol; c. use knowledge of communication theory and group
process to understand how to facilitate different kinds of focus
groups, prevent and overcome challenges in focus group
facilitation; and elicit different outcomes and techniques when
facilitating a focus group; d. use knowledge of communication
theory and group process to recognize the merits of different
approaches to focus group facilitation; e. use knowledge of
communication theory and group process to recognize good- and
poor-quality focus groups; f. understand how to transcribe / code /
analyze focus group data from a communication (discursive)
perspective; and g. understand how to write focus group findings.
Despite the fact that focus groups are an ideal research tool for
studying and employing group communication in action, many research
practitioners and scholars have missed the opportunity to utilize
them to their maximum benefit. Few researchers have the skills that
enable them to approach focus group facilitation and analysis from
a communication point of view. In this book, Dr. Christine Davis
teaches readers how to take a project from an idea to the design,
facilitation, and analysis stages. This book takes a unique
communication perspective to apply group communication theories,
knowledge of group processes, and a close discourse analysis
approach to explain and understand the discursive aspect of focus
groups. This book helps readers of all stages of experience -
including those with no background in focus group research to those
practitioners with more focus group expertise - understand how a
communication approach to focus groups takes advantage of this
discipline's rich scholarship in group communication and discourse
analysis. This book will teach readers how to a. understand the
nature of focus group research procedures from a communication
point of view; b. understand how to translate RQs into a focus
group protocol; c. use knowledge of communication theory and group
process to understand how to facilitate different kinds of focus
groups, prevent and overcome challenges in focus group
facilitation; and elicit different outcomes and techniques when
facilitating a focus group; d. use knowledge of communication
theory and group process to recognize the merits of different
approaches to focus group facilitation; e. use knowledge of
communication theory and group process to recognize good- and
poor-quality focus groups; f. understand how to transcribe / code /
analyze focus group data from a communication (discursive)
perspective; and g. understand how to write focus group findings.
Christine Davis offers readers an insider's view of the practices
of ten leading qualitative communication scholars, showing how they
make critical decisions in the process of conducting research.
Through interviews and reflective assessment of their key articles,
these researchers make visible how they deal with theory, data
collection, analysis, and writing up a study. These scholars
represent the full range of qualitative communication research:
social science, narrative, and performance. Davis provides
additional context to offer the reader a practical understanding of
how to navigate a qualitative research project.
This book examines the dialectic between fictional death as
depicted in the media and real death as it is experienced in a
hospital setting. Using a Terror Management theoretical lens, Davis
and Crane explore the intersections of life and death, experience
and fiction, to understand the relationship between them. The
authors use complementary perspectives to examine what it means
when we speak and think of death as it is conceived in cultural
media and as it is constructed by and circulates between patients,
health professionals, and supportive family members and friends.
Layering analysis with evocative narrative and an intimate tone,
with characters, plot, and action that reflect the voices and
experiences of all project participants, including the authors'
own, Davis and Crane reflect on what it means to pass away. Their
medical humanities approach bridges health communication, cultural
studies, and the arts to inform medical ethics and care.
Talking Through Death examines communication at the end-of-life
from several different communication perspectives: interpersonal
(patient, provider, family), mediated, and cultural. By studying
interpersonal and family communication, cultural media, funeral
related rituals, religious and cultural practices, medical
settings, and legal issues surrounding advance directives, readers
gain insight into the ways symbolic communication constructs the
experience of death and dying, and the way meaning is infused into
the process of death and dying. The book looks at the
communication-related health and social issues facing people and
their loved ones as they transition through the end of life
experience. It reports on research recently conducted by the
authors and others to create a conversational, narrative text that
helps students, patients, and medical providers understand the
symbolism and construction of meaning inherent in end-of-life
communication.
This book examines the dialectic between fictional death as
depicted in the media and real death as it is experienced in a
hospital setting. Using a Terror Management theoretical lens, Davis
and Crane explore the intersections of life and death, experience
and fiction, to understand the relationship between them. The
authors use complementary perspectives to examine what it means
when we speak and think of death as it is conceived in cultural
media and as it is constructed by and circulates between patients,
health professionals, and supportive family members and friends.
Layering analysis with evocative narrative and an intimate tone,
with characters, plot, and action that reflect the voices and
experiences of all project participants, including the authors'
own, Davis and Crane reflect on what it means to pass away. Their
medical humanities approach bridges health communication, cultural
studies, and the arts to inform medical ethics and care.
Talking Through Death examines communication at the end-of-life
from several different communication perspectives: interpersonal
(patient, provider, family), mediated, and cultural. By studying
interpersonal and family communication, cultural media, funeral
related rituals, religious and cultural practices, medical
settings, and legal issues surrounding advance directives, readers
gain insight into the ways symbolic communication constructs the
experience of death and dying, and the way meaning is infused into
the process of death and dying. The book looks at the
communication-related health and social issues facing people and
their loved ones as they transition through the end of life
experience. It reports on research recently conducted by the
authors and others to create a conversational, narrative text that
helps students, patients, and medical providers understand the
symbolism and construction of meaning inherent in end-of-life
communication.
Christine Davis offers readers an insider's view of the practices
of ten leading qualitative communication scholars, showing how they
make critical decisions in the process of conducting research.
Through interviews and reflective assessment of their key articles,
these researchers make visible how they deal with theory, data
collection, analysis, and writing up a study. These scholars
represent the full range of qualitative communication research:
social science, narrative, and performance. Davis provides
additional context to offer the reader a practical understanding of
how to navigate a qualitative research project.
This book intertwines the author's personal story of her father's
death with the story of her ethnography of a hospice organisation.
It is an evocative narrative that seeks to understand and explain
the process of communicating with the dying--and their
families--and the ways that this communication potentially
reinforces and enhances the humanity, life, and sanctity of
relationships. The book takes a social constructionist approach to
examine communication with and about people with terminal illness,
and in so doing, illustrates and explains health communication
theories in an understandable, concrete manner. The thesis of the
book is that while some end-of-life communication helps maintain
the humanness of the dying person, and with it, the essential
relationship between the dying and their loved ones, not all
end-of-life communication accomplishes this. Research suggests that
hospice helps facilitate the process of treating patients as
persons through the way they think about, interact, and communicate
with patients. The main focus of this narrative book is to examine
and describe the places where hospice staff, patients and families
interconnect as persons beyond their social and patient roles.
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