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Review: "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." "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."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents:

• 1. The development of applied communication research / Kenneth N. Cissna, William F. Eadie and 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 and Robert T. Craig
• 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 and Valerie Pedrami
• 5. Rhetorical methods of applied communication scholarship / Celeste M. Condit and Benjamin R. Bates
• 6. Ethnography in applied communication research / Laura L. Ellington
• 7. Discourse analysis : the practice and practical value of taping, transcribing, and analyzing talk / Karen Tracy and Julien C. Mirivel
• 8. Positioning gender as fundamental in applied communication research : taking a feminist turn / Patrice M. Buzzanell, Rebecca J. Meisenbach, Robyn Remke, Helen Sterk and Lynn H. Turner
• 9. Race as political identity : problematic issues for applied communication research / Anne Maydan Nicotera, Marcia J. Clinkscales, Laura K. Dorsey and 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 and Julie M. Novak
• 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 and Karen K. Myers
• 15. In the public interest : communication in nonprofit organizations / Eric M. Eisenberg and Beth Eschenfelder
• 16. Health communication as applied communication inquiry / Gary L. Kreps and Ellen W. Bonaguro
• 17. Communication in the helping professions / Katherine I. Miller and Jennifer R. Considine
• 18. Aging and applied communication research / Jon F. Nussbaum and Jennifer E. Ohs
• 19. Applied political communication research / Lynda Lee Kaid, Mitchell S. McKinney and John C. Tedesco
• 20. Applied communication research in educational contexts / Ann L. Darling and Liz Leckie

• 21. Communication for participatory development : dialogue, action, and change / D. Lawrence Kincaid and Maria Elena Figueroa
• 22. Drug resistance strategies project : using narrative theory to enhance adolescents' communication competence / Michael L. Hecht and Michelle Miller-Day
• 23. Applied research on group decision support systems : the Minnesota GD55 Project / Marshall Scott Poole and Gerardine Desanctis
• 24. Fear appeals and public health : managing fear and creating hope / Kim Witte and Anthony J. Roberto
• 25. The multiple faces of the public dialogue consortium : scholars, practitioners, and dreamers of better social worlds / Kimberly Pearce, Shawn Spano and W. Barnett Pearce.

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Contributors:

Frey, Lawrence R.

Cissna, Kenneth N.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Communication — Research

Communication — Research — Methodology

Communication

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Physical Description:

xl, 670 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Call Numbers:

P91.3 .R68 2009

ISBNs:

9780805849837 (acid-free paper)
0805849831 (acid-free paper)
9780805849844 (pbk., acid-free paper)
080584984X (pbk., acid-free paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2008047304

OCLC Numbers:

268957371