What a Difference More Difference-Making Communication Scholarship Might Make: Making a Difference From and Through Communication Research

Frey, Lawrence R.

doi:10.1080/00909880902792321

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“…Larry Frey (2009) concluded his article, ''communication scholars undoubtedly want their research to make a difference'' (p. 212). We're not convinced this sentiment is pervasive, especially when difference-making involves extending beyond the academy.…”

Section: Research As a Transdisciplinary Networked Process: A Metaphomentioning

confidence: 97%

“…In addition to conceptualizing communication researchers as translating research results or intervening in communication practices (Frey, 2009;Hummert, 2009), the metaphor of research as a transdisciplinary networked process wherein scholars actively seek opportunities to connect people, projects, and ideas offers new insights to the conversation begun in the forum. In what follows, we define research as a transdisciplinary networked process.…”

Section: Research As a Transdisciplinary Networked Process: A Metaphomentioning

confidence: 99%

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Research as a Transdisciplinary Networked Process: A Metaphor for Difference-Making Research

Sprain

Endres²,

Petersen³

2010

Communication Monographs

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Section: Research As a Transdisciplinary Networked Process: A Metaphomentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Research As a Transdisciplinary Networked Process: A Metaphomentioning

confidence: 99%

Research as a Transdisciplinary Networked Process: A Metaphor for Difference-Making Research

Sprain

Endres²,

Petersen³

2010

Communication Monographs

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“…This study was inspired by the ethos of applied communication research of making a difference “not just from but through research” (Frey, 2009, p. 206). Applied communication scholars can combine facilitation methods with research methodologies to conduct research into interventions (Hartwig, 2014).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Facilitating Team Reflexivity About Communication

Hedman-Phillips

Barge

2016

Small Group Research

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This article explores how team facilitation can promote team reflexivity about communication. We present a case study that was conducted within a participatory action research framework with a Top Management Team for an international manufacturing company. We identify and analyze five key interventions that promoted team reflexivity. These interventions included activities such as (a) framing the facilitation, (b) inquiring into the key issues, (c) role modeling feedback, (d) positive storytelling, and (e) reflecting on concrete communication actions. The findings suggest that reflexivity can be enhanced through positive storytelling and emotion, framing and contextual sensitivity, and addressing interactional challenges within the team. The study complements previous reflexivity research by articulating how self-awareness about a team’s communication shapes the meaning making patterns and action potential of teams as well as how reflexivity is performed in action.

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“…Traditionally, reciprocity in qualitative research was framed as a practical necessity; through developing friendly, open relationships with participants, researchers presumably generated better data (Powell & Takayoshi, 2003). Advocates of social justice research (Frey, 2009), feminist methodologists (Preissle, 2007), and participatory action researchers (Wang, 1999) currently frame reciprocity as more complex and political, including: doing no harm to communities, collaborating with participants as equals, speaking with rather than for participants and highlighting their voices, acknowledging embodied participants and their material circumstances, critiquing structural inequities, and developing solutions to participant-identified problems. Researchers may invoke reciprocity to frame nonacademic research products in four ways.…”

Section: Ethics Of Reciprocitymentioning

confidence: 99%