CITATION AND COPYRIGHT INFORMATION:
Cite as: Foreman-Wernet, L. (2003). Rethinking communication: Introducing the Sense-Making Methodology. In B. Dervin & L. Foreman-Wernet (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.). (2003). Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 3-16). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
© Hampton Press and Lois Foreman-Wernet (2003).

BOOK PURCHASE:
To purchase a copy of this book, visit www.amazon.com, or contact Hampton Press at (800) 894-8955.

ABSTRACT:
The author introduces the Sense-Making Methodolgy Reader, which compiles those key previously published papers written by Dervin and others that form the underpinnings of Sense-Making Methodology. Foreman-Wernet begins by positioning Sense-Making within the communication field as an approach that seeks to transcend its many fragmentations. She reviews in some detail what she sees as the three primary sources for the significance of Dervin’s methodological writings: (1) the thorough critique of transmission models of communication; (2) the continuing examination of the philosophical assumptions regarding reality, human beings, and observing on which communication theories and practices have been built; and (3) the explicit attentions to documenting already used and inventing new “hows” of communicating as appropriate foci for theoretic and practical attempts to make communication more useful. Foreman-Wernet concludes with an overview of the chapters in the Reader providing an alternative synthesis of the chapters to those offered elsewhere on this website.

TO OBTAIN FULL TEXT:
You may request access to the full text URL by completing this form. (This will open a new window.)

OTHER MATERIALS BY THIS AUTHOR ON THIS WEB SITE:
See: http://communication.sbs.ohio-state.edu/sense-making/AAauthors/authorlistforemanwernet.html.