Tag: Methodology

• On Representing Our Subjects/Participants/Informants/People

  

  One final old reflection to share, that appears more questions than answers, but, as with the previous one, shows me wrestling with how do to research in a way that validly represents those that I study. These questions are both why I love to study people, but also why I understand the frustration of studying […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 21, 2019

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies

  critical theory, Culture, Epistemology, hermeneutics, Methodology, ontology, perspective, phenomenology, Psychology, reception studies, society, truth, validity

• On Becoming Inter-Multi-Disciplinary

  

  Here is another great example of looking back to your older writings to find out where your foundation, your very scholarly identity, emerged, and how it has transformed over time. In this reflection piece, for the same qualitative methods class as my previous one, I find myself as PhD student struggling with knowing where I […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 19, 2019

  Communication Studies

  academia, identity crisis, interdisciplinary, methodologies, Methodology, methods, multi-disciplinary, multi-method, PhD, scholarly identity

• Work In Progress: Applying SMM to Fan Studies

  

  This draft comes from a presentation given at the 2018 MPCA/ACA conference in Indianapolis. Introduction Communication scholar Brenda Dervin created the Sense-Making Methodology as a methodological approach for conducting interviews that draws on metatheoretical concepts such as hermeneutics, phenomenology, and the humanistic approach to psychology. Since its formulation, Sense-Making Methodology (SMM) has been utilized across […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 10, 2019

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Research Method(ology)s

  Brenda Dervin, fan studies, Fandom, fans, Methodology, repeatedly returning, Sense-making, Sense-Making Methodology

• Being Methodological in Audience Studies: Applying Brenda Dervin’s Sense-Making Methodology

  

  I’ve shared in previous posts (here and here) thoughts from my PhD candidacy exam. In this post, I share my thoughts on being methodological when it comes to doing audience studies. As with the other posts, this essay was originally written in 2007. 1. What does being methodological mean? To paraphrase myself from an earlier […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 15, 2019

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Research Method(ology)s

  audience studies, Brenda Dervin, ethnographic, fan studies, film studies, media effects, media studies, methodological, Methodology, reception studies, Sense-Making Methodology, uses and gratfications

• The Multiplicity of Virtual Worlds

  Our definitions and metaphors: Discussion of how researchers and designers as users make sense of virtual world technologies This short essay reflects a project that occurred before, during and after an international workshop hosted by the Virtual Worlds Research Project.  The goal was to complete a dialogue to help us understand the multiplicity of terms […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 26, 2013

  Research Method(ology)s, Text Analysis, Virtual Worlds

  3D web, axiology, communication, definitions, dialogue, Epistemology, field construction, jargon, Methodology, MMORPG, MUD, MUVE, ontology, research communication, virtual community, virtual environments, Virtual Reality, Virtual worlds