Comm 501: Research Methods
Syllabus - Spring 2020

Reading Citations (these readings will be linked further down on this webpage under the week they are assigned):

**Please note that the below readings are available to you via the links provided on this webpage in our daily schedule. If you are attempting to access articles linked through Boise State library databases, the links will NOT work if you are not directly connected to the Boise State University network. You MUST login to the library system BEFORE the links will take you directly to the pdf version of the reading.**

Required Textbooks:

Lindlof R. T., & Taylor, B. C. (2017). Qualitative communication research methods (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

American Psychological Association (2009). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.) Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Strunk, W. & White, E. B. (2000). The elements of style (4th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Longman.

You are responsible for printing out or bringing in the below readings in pdf version to class each day we discuss it (full text html version does not have page numbers so please plan accordingly).

Supplemental Readings:

Abbott, Andrew (2004). Methods of Discovery: Heuristics for the Social Sciences. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. [Excerpt]

Alvesson, Mats & Deetz, Stanley (2001). Doing Critical Management Studies [2000]. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. [Excerpt]

Anderson, James A. (1987). Communication Research: Issues and Methods. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. [Excerpt]

Arellano, Amy (2019). Permutations of Permanency: Negotiating Tattoo Citizenship. Top Faculty Paper, Northwestern Communication Conference, April 19, 2019. Coeur d’Alene, ID.

Ashley, Seth (2014). Making the Case for War: A Comparative Analysis of CNN and BBC Coverage of Colin Powell’s Presentation to the United Nations Security Council. Media, War, & Conflict, pp. 1-21.

DOI: 10.1177/1750635214541031.

Burgchardt, Carl R. (2010). Readings in Rhetorical Criticism, 4th ed. Strata College, PA: Strata Publishing [Excerpt].

Castañeda, Nivea (2019). “Using Testimonios to Untame Our Silent Tongues: Exploring Our Experiences of Child Sexual Abuse Through an Anzaldúan Perspective”, in This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis, eds. Leandra Hinojosa Hernández and Robert Gutierrez-Perez. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Conquergood, Dwight (1991). Rethinking ethnography: Towards a critical cultural politics. Communication Monographs, 58, 179-194.

Crano, William D. & Brewer, Marilyn B. (2002). Principles and Methods of Social Research (2nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers. [Excerpt]

Deetz, Stanley (1992). Democracy in an Age of Corporate Colonization: Developments in Communication and the Politics of Everyday Life. Albany: State University of New York Press. [Excerpt]

Denzin, Norman K. and Yvonna S. Lincoln (2008). Introduction: Critical Methodologies and Indigenous Inquiry, in Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies (Chapter 1), eds. Denzin, Norman K., Yvonna S. Lincoln, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing.

Hauser, Gerard (2002). Introduction to Rhetorical Theory. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. [Excerpt]

Hicks, Manda V. (2011). Making My Narrative Mine: Unconventional Articulations of a Female Soldier. Qualitative Inquiry 17(5), 461–465.

Ivey, Christina L. (2017). “Going Home: Alienating Emotional Relational Talk with Brecht-olage,” in Doing Autoethnography (Chapter 11), eds. Sandra L. Pensoneau-Conway, Tony E. Adams, and Derek M. Bolen. Boston: Sense Publishers.

Lamott, Anne (1995) Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life [1994]. New York: Anchor Books. [Excerpt]

Lane, Julie B. (2016). Positioning for Battle: The Ideological Struggle over Senator Joseph McCarthy and the American Establishment. American Journalism 33(1): 61-85.

Lewis, Laurie, Matthew G. Isbell & Matt Koschmann (2010). Collaborative Tensions: Practitioners' Experiences of Interorganizational Relationships, Communication Monographs, 77(4): 460-479.

mcclellan, erin daina. (2013) “An ‘Official’ Account: Delivering Occupy Portland’s Eviction Notice,” in Understanding Occupy from Wall Street to Portland: Applied Studies in Communication Theory, eds. Renee Guarriello Heath, Courtney Vail Fletcher, Ricardo Munoz (pp. 167-188), New York: Rowman & Littlefield.

McClellan, John G. (2011). Reconsidering Communication and the Discursive Politics of Organizational Change. Journal of Change Management, 11(4), 465-480.

Middleton, Michael K., Danielle Endres & Sandra Senda-Cook (2011). Articulating Rhetorical Field Methods: Challenges and Tensions, Western States Journal of Communication, 75(4): 386-406.

Moore, Rick Clifton (2012). As Predicted: Fact and Improbability in News Coverage of Astrology. Journalism Studies, 13(3), 447-462.

Nothstine, William L., Carole Blair, and Gary A. Copeland (2003). Critical Questions: Invention, Creativity, and the Criticism of Discourse and Media. Boston: McGraw-Hill. [Excerpt]

Park, David W. (2018) Introduction to Media History and Democracy. Media and Communication, 6(1):1–4.

Phillips, Nelson and Hardy, Cynthia (2002). “Discourse Analysis: Investigating Processes of Social Construction,” Qualitative Research Methods, vol. 50, Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications. [Excerpt]

Reeder, Heidi (2003). The Effect of Gender Role Orientation on Same- and Cross-Sex Friendship Formation. Sex Roles, 43(3/4), 143-152.

Rossetto, Kelly R. (2014). Qualitative Research Interviews: Assessing the Therapeutic Value and Challenges. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 31(4): 482-489.

Van Maanen, John (1988). Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Excerpt].

All readings are to be completed BEFORE each class period under which they are listed on the weekly calendar below. Be sure to bring the text and all relevant readings to class on the day they are discussed.

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