Sense-making methodology reader : selected writings of Brenda Dervin / edited by Brenda Dervin and Lois Foreman-Wernet with Eric Lauterbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dervin, Brenda.

Contributor:

Foreman-Wernet, Lois.

Lauterbach, Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication--Philosophy.

Communication.

Communication--Methodology.

Physical Description:

xv, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, [2003]

Contents:

Part I Philosophical Foundations

1. Rethinking Communication: Introducing the Sense-Making Methodology / Lois Foreman-Wernet 3

2. Communication Gaps and Inequities: Moving Toward a Reconceptualization / Brenda Dervin 17

3. Users as Research Inventions: How Research Categories Perpetuate Inequities / Brenda Dervin 47

4. Comparative Theory Reconceptualized: From Entities and States to Processes and Dynamics / Brenda Dervin 61

5. Information [left and right arrow] Democracy: An Examination of Underlying Assumptions / Brenda Dervin 73

6. Verbing Communication: Mandate for Disciplinary Invention / Brenda Dervin 101

7. Given a Context by Any Other Name: Methodological Tools for Taming the Unruly Beast / Brenda Dervin 111

8. Sense-Making's Journey from Metatheory to Methodology to Method: An Example Using Information Seeking and Use as Research Focus / Brenda Dervin 133

9. Communication and Democracy: A Mandate for Procedural Invention / Brenda Dervin, Kathleen D. Clark 165

Part II Research, Design, and Practice

10. Mass Communicating: Changing Conceptions of the Audience / Brenda Dervin 197

11. Audience as Listener and Learner, Teacher and Confidante: The Sense-Making Approach / Brenda Dervin 215

12. Sense-Making Methodology: Communicating Communicatively with Campaign Audiences / Brenda Dervin, Micheline Frenette 233

13. A Theoretic Perspective and Research Approach for Generating Research Helpful to Communication Practice / Brenda Dervin 251

14. From the Mind's Eye of the User: The Sense-Making Qualitative-Quantitative Methodology / Brenda Dervin 269

15. Information as Non-Sense; Information as Sense: The Communication Technology Connection / Brenda Dervin 293

16. Practicing Journalism Communicatively: Moving from Journalism Practiced as Ideology to Journalism Practiced as Theorized Practice / Brenda Dervin, Robert Huesca 309

17. Chaos, Order, and Sense-Making: A Proposed Theory for Information Design / Brenda Dervin 325

18. Peopling the Public Sphere / Brenda Dervin, David Schaefer 341.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-375) and indexes.

ISBN:

1572735090

1572735082

OCLC:

51871729