COMMUNICATION RESEARCH METHODOLOGY (4 Credits)
Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this course, student will be able to: LO1 – define the assumptions and decisions that every researcher makes, consciously or unconsciously; LO2 – describe the research problem in communication study and the implications for research under perspectives; LO3 – apply the research systematically, precisely, and completely in the scope of communication; LO4 – analyze the advantages and disadvantages of graphics (quantitative) versus text (qualitative) for explaining research findings.
Topics:
- Getting Started: Possibilities and Decisions;
- First Decisions: From Inspiration to Implementation;
- Ethics: What are My Responsibilities as a Researcher?;
- You Could Look It Up: Reading, Recording, and Reviewing Research;
- Measurement: Research Using Numbers;
- Sampling: Who, What, and How Many?;
- Summarizing Research Results: Data Reduction and Descriptive Statistics;
- Generalizing From Research Results: Inferential Statistics;
- Surveys: Putting Numbers On Opinions;
- Quantitative Understanding of Content: Content Analysis;
- Qualitative Understanding of Content: Rhetorical and Critical Analyses, and More;
- Qualitative Understanding of Communication Behavior: Interviews, Focus Groups, and Ethnography;
- Research Results In Print and Online: Writing and Presenting for Scholarly and Other Publics.
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SOCIAL MEDIA
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