Focus Groups: Applying Communication Theory through Design, Facilitation, and Analysis - Softcover

Davis, Christine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138238007 ISBN 13: 9781138238008

Verlag: Routledge, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Despite the fact that focus groups are an ideal research tool for studying and employing group communication in action, many research practitioners and scholars have missed the opportunity to utilize them to their maximum benefit. Few researchers have the skills that enable them to approach focus group facilitation and analysis from a communication point of view. In this book, Dr. Christine Davis teaches readers how to take a project from an idea to the design, facilitation, and analysis stages. This book takes a unique communication perspective to apply group communication theories, knowledge of group processes, and a close discourse analysis approach to explain and understand the discursive aspect of focus groups. This book helps readers of all stages of experience - including those with no background in focus group research to those practitioners with more focus group expertise - understand how a communication approach to focus groups takes advantage of this discipline’s rich scholarship in group communication and discourse analysis.

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Christine S. Davis, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at UNC-Charlotte. Her research interests are in the intersection of family, culture, and health communication. Dr. Davis publishes regularly on topics such as children’s health, end-of-life communication, disability, and qualitative research methods. She has published over 50 academic books, journal articles, book chapters, and other publications and has received numerous research awards. Her B.A. degree in Communication is from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), her M.A. degree in Communication Studies is from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and her Ph.D. in Communication Studies was awarded by the University of South Florida.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138238007
• ISBN 13: 9781138238008
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 148
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