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Sense-making methodology reader : selected writings of Brenda Dervin

Brenda Dervin, Lois Foreman-Wernet, Eric Lauterbach
This work is used for studying users, audiences, patrons, patients, and clients in a variety of fields such as communication, cultural studies, library and information science, environmental studies, arts policy and education, and nursing
Print Book, English, ©2003
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Hampton Press, Cresskill, N.J., ©2003
xv, 397 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9781572735088, 9781572735095, 1572735082, 1572735090
51871729
Communication Methodology
Communication Méthodologie
Communication Philosophie
Communication Philosophy
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Sense-making methodology reader.
Dervin, Brenda.
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Prefaceix
Brenda Dervin
Acknowledgmentsxi
Notes on Technical Editingxiv
Eric Lauterbach
About the Authorsxvi
PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS
Rethinking Communication: Introducing the Sense-Making Methodology
3(14)
Lois Foreman-Wernet
Communication Gaps and Inequities: Moving Toward a Reconceptualization
17(30)
Brenda Dervin
Users as Research Inventions: How Research Categories Perpetuate Inequities
47(14)
Brenda Dervin
Comparative Theory Reconceptualized: From Entities and States to Processes and Dynamics
61(12)
Brenda Dervin
Information Democracy: An Examination of Underlying Assumptions
73(28)
Brenda Dervin
Verbing Communication: Mandate for Disciplinary Invention
101(10)
Brenda Dervin
Given a Context by Any Other Name: Methodological Tools for Taming the Unruly Beast
111(22)
Brenda Dervin
Sense-Making's Journey from Metatheory to Methodology to Method: An Example Using Information Seeking and Use as Research Focus
133(32)
Brenda Dervin
Communication and Democracy: A Mandate for Procedural Invention
165(32)
Brenda Dervin
Kathleen D. Clark
PART II: RESEARCH, DESIGN, AND PRACTICE
Mass Communicating: Changing Conceptions of the Audience
197(18)
Brenda Dervin
Audience as Listener and Learner, Teacher and Confidante: The Sense-Making Approach
215(18)
Brenda Dervin
Sense-Making Methodology: Communicating Communicatively with Campaign Audiences
233(18)
Brenda Dervin
Micheline Frenette
A Theoretic Perspective and Research Approach for Generating Research Helpful to Communication Practice
251(18)
Brenda Dervin
From the Mind's Eye of the User: The Sense-Making Qualitative-Quantitative Methodology
269(24)
Brenda Dervin
Information as Non-Sense; Information as Sense: The Communication Technology Connection
293(16)
Brenda Dervin
Practicing Journalism Communicatively: Moving from Journalism Practiced as Ideology to Journalism Practiced as Theorized Practice
309(16)
Brenda Dervin
Robert Huesca
Chaos, Order, and Sense-Making: A Proposed Theory for Information Design
325(16)
Brenda Dervin
Peopling the Public Sphere
341(8)
Brenda Dervin
David Schaefer
References349(28)
Subject Index377(10)
Author Index387