Two Decades of Referential Communication Research: A Review and Meta-Analysis

1982 ◽  
pp. 1-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Patrick Dickson
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Referential Communication ◽  
Communication Research

Mass Communication Research Trends from 1980 to 1999

2003 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasha Kamhawi ◽  
David Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Funding Source ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The University ◽  
Private Support

This is a thematic meta-analysis of research trends in major mass communication journals during the 1980 to 1999 period. We analyzed study method, medium and area of focus, theoretical approach, funding source, and time period covered in research articles published in ten major mass communication journals during this twenty-year period. Predictions made about mass communication research in the 1990s were tested. We found that qualitative research methods continued to be much less common than quantitative methods throughout the period. Funding for research was relatively rare, with the university becoming the main source and private support decreasing significantly in the 1990s. The implications of such trends are discussed.

Contemporary Approaches to Meta-Analysis in Communication Research

2014 ◽  
pp. 311-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blair T. Johnson ◽  
Lori A. J. Scott-Sheldon ◽  
Leslie B. Snyder ◽  
Seth M. Noar ◽  
Tania B. Huedo-Medina
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Communication Research

scholarly journals Erratum to: The Validity of Using Analogue Patients in Practitioner–Patient Communication Research: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (11) ◽  
pp. 1570-1570
Author(s):  
Liesbeth M. van Vliet ◽  
Elsken van der Wall ◽  
Akke Albada ◽  
Peter M. M. Spreeuwenberg ◽  
William Verheul ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Patient Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Analogue Patients

Communication Research About the Internet: a Thematic Meta-analysis

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 518-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUNG TAE KIM ◽  
DAVID WEAVER
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Communication Research

New directions in referential communication research

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Lloyd ◽  
Humbert Boada ◽  
Maria Forns
Keyword(s):  
Referential Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
New Directions

scholarly journals Communicating science in organizational contexts: toward an “organizational turn” in science communication research

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-154
Author(s):  
Mike S. Schäfer ◽  
Birte Fähnrich
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Scientific Organizations

PurposeResearch on science communication in organizational contexts is scarce – even though many cases can be found where organizations from science and beyond communicate about science-related issues, or where organizational contexts have an impact on the communication of individual scientists and scientific organizations. Therefore, it is time for an “organizational turn” in science communication research, and for more scholarly emphasis on the specific cases that science-related communication in, from and about organizations presents. Such an approximation would benefit both science communication research and analyses of strategic and organizational communication.Design/methodology/approachThis special issue of the “Journal of Communication Management” on “Communicating Science in Organizational Contexts” is a step in this direction: It compiles commentaries from leading scholars in the respective fields as well as research articles coming from various disciplines and conceptual as well as methodological paradigms. In the editorial, we assess overlaps between scholarship on science communication and strategic communication, respectively, based on a meta-analysis of journals in the field(s), develop a guiding heuristic for analyzing science communication in organizational settings, and introduce the contributions to the special issue.FindingsThe meta-analysis shows that overlaps between science communication research and scholarship on strategic communication are scarce. While organizations and their communication appear occasionally, and increasingly often, in science communication research, scholars of strategic communication only rarely analyze science communication.Research limitations/implicationsThe meta-analysis is limited to the publications of five scholarly journals over ten years. It still demonstrates the lack of research in the intersection of scholarship on science communication and strategic communication.Practical implicationsScientific organizations are rapidly extending and professionalizing their strategic communication, and an increasing number of organizations beyond science communicate on science or science-related issues. Understanding science communication in organizational settings, therefore, is crucial for practitioners in both areas.Originality/valueAnalyzing science communication in organizational settings is of increasing importance – yet few studies exist that have done it, and the respective research fields devote not much attention to one another. The special issue is a first foray into this new, intersectional field.

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