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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook Of Applied Communication Research 2009 Edition by 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 practicesdemonstrate the breadth and depth of applied communication scholarshipreview and synthesize literature about applied communication areas and topics in coherent, innovative, and pedagogically sound waysset 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. Introduction (Kenneth N. Cissna, Lawrence R. Frey). Part I: Foundations of Applied Communication Research. 1. The Development of Applied Communication Research (Kenneth N. Cissna, William F. Eadie, Mark Hickson, III). 2. Across Applied Divides: Great Debates of Applied Communication Scholarship (Lawrence R. Frey, SunWolf). 3. Practical Theory in Applied Communication Scholarship (J. Kevin Barge, Robert T. Craig). Part II: Methods of Applied Communication Research. 4. Using Quantitative Methods to Conduct Applied Communication Research (Jim L. Query, Jr., Kevin B. Wright, Patricia Amason, Kristen Campbell Eichhorn, Melinda R. Weathers, Martha Womack Haun, Eileen S. Gilchrist, Laura Bochenek Klein,Valerie Pedrami). 5. Rhetorical Methods of Applied Communication Scholarship (Celeste Condit, Benjamin R. Bates). 6. Ethnography in Applied Communication Research (Laura L. Ellingson). 7. Discourse Analysis: The Practice and Practical Value of Taping, Transcribing, and Analyzing Talk (Karen Tracy, Julien C. Mirivel). Part III: Issues in Applied Communication Research. 8. Positioning Gender as Fundamental in Applied Communication Research: Taking a Feminist Turn (Patrice M. Buzzanell, Rebecca Meisenbach, Robyn Remke, Helen Sterk, Lynn H. Turner). 9. Race as Political Identity: Problematic Issues for Applied Communication Research (Anne Mayden Nicotera, Marcia J. Clinkscales, Laura K. Dorsey, Marnel N. Niles). 10. Technology in/as Applied Communication Research (Leah A. Lievrouw). 11. Managing a World of Problems: The Implications of Globalization for Applied Communication Research (John Parrish-Sprowl). 12. Applied Communication Ethics: A Summary and Critique of the Research Literature (Matthew W. Seeger, Timothy L. Sellnow, Robert R. Ulmer, Julie M. Novak). Part IV: Contexts of Applied Communication Research. 13. Family as Agency of Potential: Toward a Positive Ontology of Applied Family Communication Theory and Research (Thomas J. Socha). 14. Organizational Communication and Applied Communication Research: Parallels, Intersections, Integration, and Engagement (David R. Seibold, Daisy R. Lemus, Dawna I. Ballard, Karen K. Myers). 15. In the Public Interest: Communication in Nonprofit Organizations (Eric M. Eisenberg, Beth Eschenfelder). 16. Health Communication as Applied Communication Inquiry (Gary L. Kreps, Ellen W. Bonaguro). 17. Communication in the Helping Professions (Katherine I. Miller, Jennifer Considine). 18. Aging and Applied Communication Research (Jon F. Nussbaum, Jennifer E. Ohs). 19. Applied Political Communication Research (Lynda Lee Kaid, Mitchell S. McKinney, John C. Tedesco). 20. Applied Communication Research in Educational Contexts (Ann L. Darling, Liz Leckie). 21. Communication for Participatory Development: Dialogue, Action, and Change (D. Lawrence Kincaid, Maria Elena Figueroa). Part V: Exemplary Programs of Applied Communication Research. 22. Drug Resistance Strategies Project: Using Narrative Theory to Enhance Adolescents' Communication Competence (Michael Hecht, Michelle Miller-Day). 23. Applied Research on Group Decision Support Systems: The Minnesota GDSS Project (Marshall Scott Poole, Gerardine DeSanctis). 24. Fear Appeals and Public Health: Managing Fear and Creating Hope (Kim Witte, Anthony J. Roberto). 25. The Multiple Faces of the Public Dialogue Consortium: Scholars, Practitioners, and Dreamers of Better Social Worlds (Kimberly Pearce, Shawn Spano, W. Barnett Pearce)