Sense-Making Methodology: Communicating Communicatively
with Campaign Audiences

Dervin, Brenda; Frenette, Micheline

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“…In other words, reaching the unreached is a oneway process. As the theme of this paper is an international discussion on technologies for learning, I submit that human learning translates into a disposition to dialogue, and that dialogue is a two-way process (Dervin & Frenette, 2001;Shotter, 2002;Visser, 2001). As long as the process is one way we all remain unreached.…”

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Technology, learning and corruption: Opportunities and hurdles in the search for the development of mind in an international development context

Visser¹

2002

ETR&D

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Technology, learning and corruption: Opportunities and hurdles in the search for the development of mind in an international development context

Visser¹

2002

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“…The primary articles where she discusses information use are Dervin (1983Dervin ( , 1992Dervin ( , 1999bDervin ( , 2003 and Dervin and Frenette (2003). In the selection of sense-making texts, the fact that Dervin's conceptions of information use have changed to some extent since the early 1980s was acknowledged.…”

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“…Recently, the ideas of "verbing" practices have been emphasized as a distinctive feature of sense-making (Dervin, 1999b;Dervin & Frenette, 2003).…”

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Information use as gap‐bridging: The viewpoint of sense‐making methodology

Savolainen

2006

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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The conceptual issues of information use are discussed by reviewing the major ideas of sense-making methodology developed by Brenda Dervin. Sense-making methodology approaches the phenomena of information use by drawing on the metaphor of gap-bridging. The nature of this metaphor is explored by utilizing the ideas of metaphor analysis suggested by Lakoff and Johnson. First, the source domain of the metaphor is characterized by utilizing the graphical illustrations of sense-making metaphors. Second, the target domain of the metaphor is analyzed by scrutinizing Dervin's key writings on information seeking and use. The metaphor of gap-bridging does not suggest a substantive conception of information use; the metaphor gives methodological and heuristic guidance to posit contextual questions as to how people interpret information to make sense of it. Specifically, these questions focus on the ways in which cognitive, affective, and other elements useful for the sense-making process are constructed and shaped to bridge the gap. Ultimately, the key question of information use studies is how people design information in context.

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“…The researcher must encourage the patient to describe his or her world in the context of the patient's own meanings and understandings in order to gain knowledge of the individual's life experiences (Dervin and Frenette, 2001 individual's life experiences, the researcher must encourage the person to describe his or her world in the context of the person's own meanings and understandings. This is accomplished by transferring the researcher's attention from "nouns of interest," such as the goals and evidence of the study, to "verbs that permit a dialogic interface to be established" (Dervin and Frenette, 2001, p. 72).…”

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“…This is accomplished by transferring the researcher's attention from "nouns of interest," such as the goals and evidence of the study, to "verbs that permit a dialogic interface to be established" (Dervin and Frenette, 2001, p. 72). The useful example provided by Dervin and Frenette (2001) relates to obesity:…”

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Explorations of Self-Efficacy: Personal Narratives as Qualitative Data in the Analysis of Smoking Cessation Efforts

Rollins

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2010

J Smok Cessat

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Research has found that an individual's perceived self-efficacy, supported by goals and the acceptance of potential obstacles, has the ability to assist in behaviour modification. By examining the narratives of cardiovascular patients undergoing smoking cessation counselling, this study highlights factors that individuals communicate in their narratives regarding changes to self-efficacy throughout the process of smoking cessation. Narrative analysis is used to establish those factors that cardiovascular patients assert to be the motivating or impeding factors in their smoking cessation efforts, particularly in relation to their initial readiness to quit smoking. The study's findings illustrate the social, physical and psychological barriers and motivating factors that exist for cardiovascular patients in the process of quitting smoking. The current study supplements past research illustrating that in-hospital programs are among the most influential smoking intervention strategies because they can be tailored to each patient's specific health problems and personal and social circumstances. The study concludes that the relationship formed between patients and intervention specialists can assist in raising an individual's self-efficacy to end an addictive behaviour.

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Sense-Making Methodology: Communicating Communicatively with Campaign Audiences

Cited by 88 publications

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Technology, learning and corruption: Opportunities and hurdles in the search for the development of mind in an international development context

Technology, learning and corruption: Opportunities and hurdles in the search for the development of mind in an international development context

Information use as gap‐bridging: The viewpoint of sense‐making methodology

Explorations of Self-Efficacy: Personal Narratives as Qualitative Data in the Analysis of Smoking Cessation Efforts

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