Description
Book SynopsisThis timely volume provides an in-depth look at why the field of communication is so central in initiatives for social impact around the world. In Distinctive Qualities in Communication Research, editors Donal Carbaugh and Patrice M. Buzzanell bring together scholars with varied and productive approaches to communication to address the question of what distinguishes communication research from similar studies in other disciplines. Each contributor responds to the question: What makes your research communication research? How does your program of inquiry treat communication not simply as data, but as its primary theoretical concern? Their responses are the heart of this book.
The questions addressed and answered herein define the qualities that set research in communication apart from work in related fields, such as social psychology, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. The book begins and ends by l
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Robert Craig, Colorado: "This volume brings together several of the top people in the field of communication, along with several administrator and funding agency commentators, to reflect on the field’s distinctive qualities. The description suggests a well organized volume, and the uniformly high stature of the authors suggests it will be a substantive volume at a general level (given its relatively short length). It is certainly relevant to the discipline, offering several ways of answering the endlessly repeated "What is communication (studies)?" question. The idea of a short, high quality book that we could recommend to administrators as well as colleagues and students curious about the field is attractive."
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
Robert Craig
CHAPTER ONE
An Introduction to Some Distinctive Qualities in Communication Research
Patrice Buzzanell & Donal Carbaugh
CHAPTER TWO
Distinctive Qualities in Communication Research: A Dialogic Approach to Interpersonal/Family Communication
Leslie A. Baxter
CHAPTER THREE
The Promise of Communication in Large-Scale, Community-Based Research
Michael Hecht
CHAPTER FOUR
Politically Attentive Relational Constructionism (PARC): Making a Difference in a Pluralistic, Interdependent World
Stanley Deetz
CHAPTER FIVE
The Importance of Communication Science in Addressing Core Problems in Public Health
Joseph N. Cappella and Robert Hornik
CHAPTER SIX
Researching Culture in Contexts of Social Interaction: An Ethnographic Approach, a Network of Scholars, and Illustrative Moves
Gerry Philipsen
CHAPTER SEVEN
Reflections on Distinctive Qualities in Communication Research
Donal Carbaugh and Patrice Buzzanell
