Routledge Handbook of Applied Communication Research 1st Edition by Lawrence Frey, Kenneth Cissna 9780805849844 0203871642

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ISBN 10: 0203871642

ISBN 13: 9780805849844

Author: Lawrence R. Frey, Kenneth N. Cissna

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 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:

Part I 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 II 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 III 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 IV 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

Part V 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

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