Towards a Cultural Methodology of Human Communication Research

2015 ◽  
pp. 45-58
Author(s):  
Andy Kirkpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Communication Research ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Human Communication Research

Mediation Analysis and Warranted Inferences in Media and Communication Research: Examining Research Design in Communication Journals From 1996 to 2017

2020 ◽  
pp. 107769902096151
Author(s):  
Michael Chan ◽  
Panfeng Hu ◽  
Macau K. F. Mak
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Mediation Analysis ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Causal Inferences ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human Communication Research ◽  
Media And Communication

The number of studies employing mediation analysis has increased exponentially in the past two decades. Focusing on research design, this study examines 387 articles in the Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research, Communication Research, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, and Media Psychology between 1996 and 2017. Findings show that while most studies report statistically significant indirect effects, they are inadequate to make causal inferences. Authors also often infer that they uncovered the “true” mediator(s) while alternative models and mediators are rarely acknowledged. Future studies should pay more attention to the role of research design and its implications for making causal inferences.

The Human Communication Research Centre dialogue database

1992 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 711-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne H. Anderson ◽  
Simon C. Garrod ◽  
Aileen Clark ◽  
Elizabeth Boyle ◽  
James Mullin
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Human Communication Research

ABSTRACTThe HCRC dialogue database consists of over 700 transcribed and coded dialogues from pairs of speakers aged from seven to fourteen. The speakers are recorded while tackling co-operative problem-solving tasks and the same pairs of speakers are recorded over two years tackling 10 different versions of our two tasks. In addition there are over 200 dialogues recorded between pairs of undergraduate speakers engaged on versions of the same tasks. Access to the database, and to its accompanying custom-built search software, is available electronically over the JANET system by contacting [email protected], from whom further information about the database and a user's guide to the database can be obtained.

Corpus Work at HCRC

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-130
Author(s):  
Henry S. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Language ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Processing Regimes ◽  
Human Communication Research

An overview is given of work on the creation, collection, preparation, and publication of electronic corpora of written and spoken language undertaken at the Human Communication Research Centre at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Four major efforts are described: the HCRC Map Task Corpus, the ECI/MC1, the MLCC project and work on document architectures and processing regimes for SGML-encoded corpora.

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