Vaitkus, S. (2000). Phenomenology and Sociology. In Bryan S. Turner (Ed.). The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory. Second ed. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers. In this chapter from the larger text on social theory, Vaitkus discusses phenomenology in general and specifically, the soc...
Continue reading ...Creswell, John W. Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design : Choosing among Five Traditions. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1998. For my dissertation study, I chose to use a qualitative method (or series of methods), due to its multi-method focus, interpretive approach, and purpose. Q...
Continue reading ...Here is the methodology from my final pre-proposal submitted in May 2010. I am posting it now, since the blog posts over the next three weeks will all be on my dissertation methods. The nature of this study–examining an online communication method–is one of social acts. Using a social phenomeno...
Continue reading ...Kock, Ned. "The Ape That Used Email: Understanding E-Communication Behavior through Evolution Theory." Communications of AIS 5 3 (2001): 29. In September 2009, I published posts on media richness theory and media synchronicity theory. (Be sure to check out this week’s posts continuing the disc...
Continue reading ...Dennis, A. R., et al. "Beyond Media Richness: An Empirical Test of Media Synchronicity Theory." Proceedings of the Thirty-First Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Vol I (1998): 48-57. I first introduced and discussed media synchronicity theory in a September 2009 post, . While ...
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