Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2020.1792795
M. Dutta, Satveer Kaur, Phoebe Elers
ABSTRACT In this review essay, we examine the various threads, debates, and dialogues around valildity in interpretive metods. We address the ways in which the question of validity have emerged in the different areas of interpretive social sciences. We then delve into future directions for conversations on validity in the interpretive social sciences. The essay wraps up by suggesting a radical politics that inverts the reductionist thread of communication, instead suggesting radical paradigm-shifting registers for conversations on the quality of interpretive accounts.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2020.1792789
Stephanie Kelly, D. Westerman
ABSTRACT As part of this special issue on validity, this essay addresses practices for research in both measurement and methodology through the lens of the philosophy of science. The essay has three primary objectives. First, it seeks to outline seminal characteristics of science, identifying practices that scientists must adopt in research for their work to be more scienctific. Second, the essay notes best practices for conducting science in the field of communication. Finally, the article concludes with discussion of the future of communication science.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2020.1792791
N. Bowman, Alan K. Goodboy
ABSTRACT For social sciences such as communication studies, in which key variables are often indirectly measured using myriad operationalizations, issues of construct validity are critical to the veracity of claims made from empirical data. This manuscript considers the ways we can improve how we demonstrate construct validity when using survey items. Some of these improvements are associated with our discussions of the sources of construct validity, and others are associated with the statistical analyses (and mistakes in those analyses) that we engage to demonstrate construct validity. The end goal of this manuscript is to review and reveal best practices for establishing construct validity as an incremental step in improving the quality of communication science.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2020.1794925
Amy B. Becker
ABSTRACT Political satire has been an object of study for communication researchers for more than a generation. Focused primarily on the political effects of satire exposure on attitudes and opinions, knowledge gain and learning, and efficacy and engagement, this large body of research often treats satire as news. Research that focuses on the entertaining nature of satire is equally important. To broaden the field's theoretical understanding of political satire's net impact, the research suggests five frameworks from mass communication theory that can be applied to better understand the effects of exposure to political satire, including: (1) mood management theory, (2) parasocial interaction, (3) identification, (4) social identity theory, and (5) hedonic and eudaimonic motivations.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2020.1792788
S. Croucher, Stephanie Kelly
ABSTRACT The following is an introduction to this special issue on validity in communication. This introduction describes the rationale for this special issue and outlines the four objectives of the special issue.
以下是对传播有效性这一专题的介绍。这篇引言介绍了本期特刊的基本原理，并概述了本期特刊的四个目标。
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2020.1792793
B. McEwan
ABSTRACT Sampling strategies are directly related to external validity. The choices researchers make in selecting sampling frames and sampling participants need to be clearly articulated. Sampling choices can introduce a variety of biases into research findings that reduce the external validity of samples. This essay discusses the relationship between sampling and external validity and provides a brief overview of important sampling concepts including power, the central limit theorem, nonprobability sampling and probability sampling. Sampling related biases are overviewed in the context of communication research. Finally, strategies that researchers and the discipline as a whole might adopt to ameliorate validity concerns related to sampling are proposed.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2020.1792790
O. Kothgassner, A. Felnhofer
ABSTRACT The proliferation of Virtual Reality (VR) over the past decades has introduced a tool to research that holds the promise of providing a means to overcoming drawbacks of traditional experimental and assessment methods in social sciences. By stimulating multiple sensory channels and displaying dynamic contexts, it fosters responses comparable to real-life responses whilst maintaining experimental rigor and standardization. This paper discusses advantages of VR over traditional paradigms and debunks the underlying mechanisms which account for true-to-life reactions to virtual environments In contrast to virtual environments devoid of social cues, implementing social interactions in experiments, poses a demanding challenge. Therefore, we introduce a novel process model as an explanation for participants’ different reactions to virtual entities depending on their agency.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2020.1792794
Michelle T. Violanti
ABSTRACT This essay argues that those who create and consume research from a critical perspective should be concerned with issues of validity. An analysis of National and International Communication association journals publishing critical work found extremely limited attention to validity. Critical validity looks different than construct and measurement validity in a post-positivistic perspective. Specifically, a critical perspective needs to address construct, expert, transactional, and catalytic. Those who are evaluating critical research should focus on the extent to which researchers engage in authenticity, coherence, criticality, dialogue and self-reflection, plausibility, reflexivity, and transparency; examples of how these might be achieved are included.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2020.1792792
Whitney Gent, E. Sauter, Daniel Cronn-Mills
ABSTRACT Rhetoric, rhetorical theory, and rhetorical criticism from their earliest days as a scholarly endeavor in ancient Greece and the Roman Republic developed as an art. In fact, rhetoric, along with grammar and philosophy, formed the three disciplines of the trivium as compared to the scientific disciplines in the quadrivium (math, geometry, music, and astronomy). Art is fluid, dynamic, and shifting; art is always in the process of becoming.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-28DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2020.1770620
K. E. Phillips, Jordan Soliz
ABSTRACT In this manuscript we review multiple approaches to family communication research, and provide directions for future research as they relate to family culture. Specifically, we review family communication research that is either explicitly or implicitly tied to family culture. Given the importance of families and understanding the first social group that individuals often belong to, it is necessary to synthesize programs of research related to family culture. Thus, in order to further the progression of family research we provide an overview of where current research on family communication converges, present additional factors for family scholars to include in their work, and conclude with suggestions for scholarship that builds on and integrates existing research.
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