7. Article Categories
What Makes Qualitative Research Qualitative?
James W. Chesebro & Deborah J. Borisoff
The discipline of communication is marked by an increasing number of ways to understand. Given the research explosion, specialization has accordingly become a major way of dealing with research and methodological diversity. Within this context, this analysis is predominantly definitional, seeking to isolate the unique features of qualitative research. [...]
Strategic Transformations in Power and the Nature of International Communication Theory
James W. Chesebro, Jung Kyu Kim, and Donggeol Lee
Ball State University
Abstract: This essay explores the proposition that a massive transformation in strategic power is underway in the world. This transformation is likely to affect the nature and direction of cross-cultural and international communication theory. This essay proceeds in five parts. In part one, multiculturalism is [...]
Transforming Community: A Conversation About Building CommunityAcross Media Studies, Media Education, and Media Ecology
James W. Chesebro1
Presentation and Panel Discussion at the Eastern Communication Association Convention
Friday, April 28, 2006, 12:30pm to 1:30pm, in Ballroom D in the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The title of this panel intrigues, but it also perplexes. It seems to beg us to define and operationalize what we mean by the terms that comprise [...]
Theoretical Fidelity: Implications of a Consistent and Enduring Orientation in the Discipline of Communication
James W. Chesebro1
November 24, 20022
This panel is particularly revealing. It reveals a great deal–not about me, but actually about Barry Brummett. Barry is one of the few people I know who would use a sexual metaphor to discuss theory—linking sex and theory is, itself, revealing. One is tempted to ask if theory is orgasmic for [...]
A Burkeian Perspective of Interpersonal Communication: A Confession and Extension
A Burkeian Perspective of Interpersonal Communication: A Confession and Extension
James W. Chesebro1
November 21, 20022
Last year, at this convention, we explored how Burkeian concepts have been used and evolved since the death of Kenneth Burke3. We return to this discussion again at this convention. The return is totally appropriate. We have not exhausted the topic, and [...]
Responding to, Placing, and Extending Kenneth Burke’s Auscultation, Creation, and Revision: The Rout of the Esthetes Literature, Marxism, and Beyond
James W. Chesebro
Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association,
Atlanta, Georgia
November 2, 2001
I particularly welcome this opportunity to characterize Kenneth Burke’s Auscultation. In preparing his manuscript for publication, as many of you know who may have read Burke’s original manuscript, Burke’s extended marginal notes, cross-references, additions, and deletions, created a particularly challenging [...]