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strategies on questionnaires & interviews ✔️Structured

Semistructured

Unstructured



3 Types of Information ✔️Information retrieval

Information Processing

New Information



Research Methods ✔️the means used to collect evidence necessary for building or testing explanations
about that which is being studied.



Epistemologies ✔️Personal Experience

Intuition

Authority

Tradition, Custom, and Faith

Magic & superstition



Research ✔️the disciplined inquiry that involves studying something in a planned manner and reporting
it so that other inquirers can potentially replicate the process if they choose



Types of Research ✔️Scholarly and Proprietary



Characteristics of Research ✔️curiosity, systematic, replicable, reflective & critical, cumulative & self-
correcting, and cyclical



What all Communication Researchers have in Common ✔️The ultimate goal is the generation of
knowledge that may then be used to improve the human condition

We all study how humans encode, transmit, and receive symbols to influence one another

, We all follow certain prescribed rules

We all collect and analyze data

We begin with a question, an interrogative, asking about something that is unknown.



Model of Communication Research ✔️Conceptualization: refine our area of study

Design: work on measurement (operationalization- define your variables in a measurable way)

Methods: decide how to gather the data (ex. Survey, lab experiment)

Analyze: Run the data

Reconceptualization: make sense out of everything (connect the data to the information took earlier)



paradigm ✔️broad framework of perception, understanding, belief within which theories and practice
operate.



(Bassey, 1990, para 8.1) ✔️"A network of coherent ideas about the nature of the world and the
functions of researchers which, adhered to by a group of researchers, conditions their thinking and
underpins their research actions"



Positivists ✔️Single Reality

Researcher is independent of the research

Unbiased

Deduction

Researcher controlled setting

Quantitative

Impersonal Voice



Negativists ✔️Multiple Realities

Researcher is interdependent with the research

Biased

Induction

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