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Approaches to communication research
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Communication
Undergraduate 2
10/24/2012

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Archival documentary
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centers on finding, examining, and interpreting messages that were communicated in the past

 

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Library documentary
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examine asll relevant published materials about the research topic
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Historical research
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entails drawign conclusions and presenting new explanations about past communication events or communicators

 

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Legal/Policy
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seeks to clarifyand understand how laws operate in society
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Secondary data-analysis
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reconsidering and reinterpreting previously gathered or archived data
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Meta-analysis
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looks at research trends or themes in published literature
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Textual research
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focuses on media or other content and meanings generated from the content
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Conversation and interaction analysis
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procedure that helps researchers identify themes and relevant issues often contained in media messages

 

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Critica;/cultural approaches
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involves examining events, messages, and structures from a particular perspective
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Rhetorical criticism
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applies Aristotle's concept of invention, style, delivery, and effects on the audience to analyze political debate
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Fantasy-theme analysis
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looks at language and other ssymbols to create shared relaities
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Marxist criticism
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explores how media can help foster hegemony and maintain societal power structures
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observationoal research
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look and see how people act in differnt situations
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ethnography
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used to form objective descriptions of social norms and events as they occur
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