1. Communicative Research Methods
CAS 204

2. What is Communication?

3. What is Communication?
The nature of communication is complex and contested.

4. What is Communication?
The nature of communication is complex and contested.
We will adopt a model of communication as a comprehensive view of meaningful human experience.

5. What is Communication?
In this view, our subjective “interiority” and objective “things” can each be seen as outcomes of communicative interaction.

6. Communication is Theory Driven Practice

7. Communication is Theory Driven Practice
A “theory” is a way of seeing/experiencing.

8. Communication is Theory Driven Practice
A “theory” is a way of seeing/experiencing.
Theories direct our attention, organize our experience, and enable specific forms of action.

9. Communication is Theory Driven Practice
A “theory” is a way of seeing/experiencing.
Theories direct our attention, organize our experience, and enable specific forms of action.
The theories we bring to a situation partly reveal and partly conceal options for interaction.

10. Communication is Theory Driven Practice
A “theory” is a way of seeing/experiencing.
Theories direct our attention, organize our experience, and enable specific forms of action.
The theories we bring to a situation partly reveal and partly conceal options for interaction.

11. Communication Theory as Critical Methodology
Implicit theories about the world always benefit some individuals, groups, and ways of life….and disadvantage others.

12. Communication Theory as Critical Methodology
Implicit theories about the world always benefit some individuals, groups, and ways of life….and disadvantage others.
Often, disadvantageous theories are reproduced and practiced by those whom they harm.

13. Communication Theory as Critical Methodology
Implicit theories about the world always benefit some individuals, groups, and ways of life….and disadvantage others.
Often, disadvantageous theories are reproduced and practiced by those whom they harm.
Critical communication theorists can help reveal the implicit power relations often hidden by commonsense theories

14. Communication Theory as Critical Methodology
Implicit theories about the world always benefit some individuals, groups, and ways of life….and disadvantage others.
Often, disadvantageous theories are reproduced and practiced by those whom they harm.
Critical communication theorists can help reveal the implicit power relations often hidden by commonsense theories
And, they can help foster more participatory democratic communicative practices.

15. Communication Theory as Critical Methodology
This course, then, will challenge you to think about the foundational role of communicative interaction in the formation of experience.