DERVIN'S WRITINGS:
CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING
(Revised August 27, 2007)

 

BRENDA L. DERVIN 

 

School of Communication

Ohio State University

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PUBLICATION NOTES (in reverse chronological order, present to 1965)

This document is available at:  http://communication.sbs.ohio-state.edy/sense-making/bib/bibdervincompleat.html

An index to Dervin's writings for writings through April 1, 2003 is available at: http://communication.sbs.ohio-state.edu/sense-making/bib/bibdervinindex.html. The dated key numbers listed below (e.g., 2003-24) are used in that index. Abstracts of most writings -- and in some cases, full texts -- are available at: http://communication.sbs.ohio-state.edu/sense-making/art/artlist.html.

 

2007 Publications, in press

Dervin, B. & Reinhard C. (2007-01, in press). How emotional dimensions of situated information seeking relate to user evaluations of help from sources:  An exemplar study informed by Sense-Making Methodology.  In D. Nahl & D. Bilal (Eds.), Emotional design:  The emergent affective paradigm in information behavior research and theory. Medford, N.J.:  Information Today, Inc.
Abstract available at: http://imlsproject.comm.ohio-state.edu/imls_papers/osu_emotions.pdf

                                                                                       

2007 Papers. Reports & Recorded Presentations

Dervin, B. (2007-02).  Focus groups for participatory research:  Design using systematic dialogic principles drawn from Sense-Making Methodology.  Paper presented at International Association of Media and Communication Research annual meeting, July 23-25, Paris, France.  

 

Dervin, B. & Reinhard, C.D. (2007-03).  Predicting library, internet, and other source use:  A comparison of the predictive power of two user-defined categorizations of information seeking situations -- nature of situation versus situation "emotions" assessments.  Posted paper presented at American Society for Information Science & Technology annual meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 18-25, 2007.  Available at: http://imlsproject.comm.ohio-state.edu/imls_papers/asist07poster_list.html

 

Dervin, Brenda (2007-04).  Applying Sense-Making Methodology to focus group design:  Addressing both collective and individual agency.  Presented at Non-Divisional Working Symposium on "Making communication studies matter:  Field relevance/irrelevance to media, library, electronic, communication system designs, policies, practices."  May 24, San Francisco.  Available at: http://communication.sbs.ohio-state.edu/sense-making/meet/2007/meet07_dervin.pdf

 

2006 Publications

Dervin, B. (2006-01).  Navigating an impossible dream: a synergy of possibilities, a convergence of constraints.  Keio Communication Review.  No. 28, 19-27.  

 

Dervin, B. (Ed.) (2006-02). The strengths of our methodological divides:  Communication field navigators, their struggles and successes.  Keio Communication Review, (28),  (Introduction on pages 5-8).

 

Foreman-Wernet, L. & Dervin, B. (2006-03). (dated 2005, not released until 2006).  Comparing arts and popular culture experiences: Applying a common methodological framework.  Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society., 35 (3: Fall), 169-188.  (Initial version presented as conference paper 2004-05)

 

Dervin, B., Reinhard, C.D.,  Kerr, Z.Y. (2006-04).  The burden of being special:  Adding clarity about communicating to researching and serving users, special and otherwise.  Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 30  (Danuta A. Nitecki & Eileen G. Abels, editors), pp. 241-277.  (Overlaps in part with power point presented as 2005-09).  Outline, summary and conclusions available at:  http://imlsproject.comm.ohio-state.edu/imls_papers/osu_adv.pdf

Foreman-Wernet, L. & Dervin, B. (2006-06, still in press) Listening to learn:  The "inactive" publics of the arts as exemplar.  Public Relations Review, 32 (3: Fall), pages unknown as of 1/20/07.  (Initial version presented as 2006-05)

 

Dervin, B. and Reinhard, C.D. (2006-07).  Researchers and practitioners talk about users and each other:  Making user and audience studies matter - paper 1.  Information Research, 12(1), paper 286. Available at:  http://informationr.net/ir/12-1/paper286.html (This is an ISI journal)

 

Dervin, B., Reinhard, C.D., Shen, F.S. (2006-08).  Beyond communication -- research as communicating:  Making user and audience studies matter - paper 2.  Information Research, 12(2), paper 287.  Available at:  http://informationr.net/ir/12-1/paper287.html (This is an ISI journal

 

This journal article is supported by a power point prepared especially for graduate students in the three focal fields -- LIS, COMM, and HCI -- that are the intended audience of the articles above.  Dervin, B., Reinhard, C. D., Shen, F. C., Adamson, S.K. & Karnolt, N. M. (2006-09). We get by with a little help from our friends: quotable quotes about research as communicating. Columbus, Ohio:  School of Communication, Ohio State University.  http://imlsproject.comm.ohio-state.edu/imls_papers/asist06_panel_infoR_02quotes.ppt

 

 

2006 Papers. Reports & Recorded Presentations

Foreman-Wernet, L. & Dervin, B. (2006-05).  Listening to learn:  The "inactive" publics of the arts as exemplar.  Presented at National Communication Association annual meeting, San Antonio, TX, November 16-19. (Published as 2006-06). 

 

Dervin, B., Case, D., Dillon, A., Fisher, K., Normore, L., Tenopir, C, with numerous co-authors (2006-10). Being user oriented: Convergences, divergences, and the potentials for systematic dialogue between disciplines and between researchers, designers, and providers. Panel session at American Society for Information Science and Technology annual meeting, November 3-9, Austin, TX   http://imlsproject.comm.ohio-state.edu/imls_papers/asist06panel_list.html (includes Dervin presentation and power point).

Dervin, B., Reinhard, C.D., Kerr, Z.Y., Connaway, L.S., Prabha, C., & Normore, L. et al. (2006-11). How libraries, internet browsers. and other sources help: A comparison of sense-making evaluations of sources used in recent college/university and personal life situations by faculty, graduate student, and undergraduate users. Poster presented at American Society for Information Science & Technology annual meeting, November 3-9, Austin, TX.   http://imlsproject.comm.ohio-state.edu/imls_papers/asist06poster_list.html 

Dervin, B., Reinhard C.D., Adamson, S.K., Lu, T.T., Karnolt, N.M. & Berberick, T. (Eds.).  (2006-12) Sense-making the information confluence:  The whys and hows of college and university user satisficing of information needs. Phase I:  Project overview, the Three-Field Dialogue project, and state-of-the-art reviews.   Report on National Leadership Grant LG-02-03-0062-03, to Institute of Museum and Library Services, Washington, D.C.  Columbus, Ohio:  School of Communication, The Ohio State University.  Available at: 
http://imlsproject.comm.ohio-state.edu/imls_reports/imls_PH_I_report_list.html

Dervin, B. (2006-13).  Project overview:  Sense-Making Methodology as dialogic approach to communication for research and practice, Chapter I.  In report (2006-12) referenced above.

Dervin, B. & Reinhard, C.D., with others.  (2006-14).  Three-field dialogue project:  How researchers and practitioners in 3 fields saw users, user research and each other, Chapter II.  In report (2006-12) referenced above.

Adamson, S.K. & Dervin, B., with others (Eds.) (2006-15).  Quandaries about users, user research, and each other: The impressionistic essays, Chapter III.  In report (2006-12) referenced above.

Dervin, B., Reinhard, C.D., Kerr, Z.Y., Song, M. & Shen, F.C. (Eds.)  (2006-16).  Sense-making the information confluence: The whys and hows of college and university user satisficing of information needs.  Phase II: Sense-making online survey and phone interview study.  Report on National Leadership Grant LG-02-03-0062-03 to Institute for Museums and Library Services, Washington, D.C.  Columbus, Ohio:  School of Communication, Ohio State University. http://imlsproject.comm.ohio-state.edu/imls_reports/imls_PH_II_report_list.html

Dervin, B., Reinhard, C.D., Kerr, Z.Y. & Shen, F.C. (2006-17).  Phase II executive summary, conclusions, applications, implications, Executive Summary.  In report (2006-16) referenced above.

Dervin, B. (2006-18).  Introduction:  An in-depth quantitative-qualitative study of user sense-making of the whys and hows of satisficing information needs, Chapter I.  In report (2006-16) referenced above.

Dervin, B., Reinhard, C.D., Song, M. & Reed, S.J., with others.  (2006-19).  Sampling, Chapter II.  In report (2006-16) referenced above.

Dervin, B., Reinhard C.D., Song, M. & Reed., S.J., with others. (2006-20).  Interviewing, Chapter III.  In report (2006-16) referenced above.

Dervin, B., Reinhard, C.D., Song, M. & Kerr., Z.Y., with others. (2006-21).  Coding and content analysis, Chapter IV.  In report (2006-16) referenced above.

Dervin, B., Reinhard, C.D., Song, M. & Kerr., Z.Y., with others. (2006-22).  Data and statistical analyses. Chapter V. In report (2006-16) referenced above.

Dervin, B., Reinhard C.D., Kerr, Z.Y. & Shen, F.C., with others.  (2006-23).  How our sense-makers saw their situations.  Chapter VI.  In report (2006-16) referenced above.

Dervin, B., Reinhard C.D., Kerr, Z.Y. & Shen, F.C., with others.  (2006-24).  Questions our sense-makers asked in their situations.  Chapter VII.  In report (2006-16) referenced above.

Dervin, B., Reinhard, C.D., Song, M., Kerr, Z.Y. & Shen, F.C., with others.  (2006-25).   What our sense-makers learned in their situations. Chapter VII.   In report (2006-16) referenced above.

Reinhard, C.D., Dervin, B., Song, M., Kerr, Z.Y. & Shen, F.C., with others.  (2006-26).  The sources of input our sense-makers turned to in their situations.  Chapter X.  In report (2006-16) referenced above.

2005 Publications
Dervin, B.  (2005-01).  The philcomm division of ICA as seen from the margins by a formerly fem-us rebellious ragamuffin:  A personal reflection.  Communication Review, 8 (4), 415-421.

Dervin, B. (2005-02).  Libraries reaching out with health information to vulnerable populations:  Guidance from research on information seeking and use.  Journal of the Medical Library Association, 93 (4: October, supplement), S74-S80. (Published Version of 2004-02)

2005 Papers. Reports & Recorded Presentations)

Dervin, B. & Song, M. (2005-06).  Reaching for phenomenological depths in uses and gratifications research: A quantitative empirical investigation.  Paper presented at International Communication Association annual meeting, May 26-30, New York City

 

Dervin, B., Shields, P. & Song, M. (2005-04).  More than 'misunderstanding', less than war: "Administrative" and "critical" theories, field cohesion, and (im) possible dialogue.  Paper presented at International Communication Association annual meeting, May 26-30, New York City

 

Schaefer, D. & Dervin, B. (2005-07).  Online discussion groups, situation movement states, and dialogue quality: The potential for democratic electronic public spheres.  Paper presented at International Communication Association annual meeting, May 26-30, New York City

 

Dervin, B. (2005-08).  A beast with many arms:  How and why Sense-Making Methodology grew and mutated.  Presentation at American Society for Information Science and Technology annual meeting, October 28-November 2, Charlotte, NC.

 

Dervin, B. (2005-09).  The burden of being special:  Adding methodological clarity to defining, researching, and serving special populations.  Keynote presentation at 5th annual research symposium of the Special Interest Group on Information Needs, Seeking, and Use, American Society for Information Science and Technology annual meeting, October 28-November 2, Charlotte, NC.  (published as 2006-04)

 

Dervin, B. (2005-10).  Building big user studies out of small encounters:  Making ever user contact a micro-user study.  Presentation at Pre-Conference 2:  Planning and Implementing User Studies,  IMLS Web-Wise 2005: Teaching and Learning with Digital Resources, February 16, Washington, D.C.

 

2004 Papers. Reports & Recorded Presentations

Dervin, B.  (2004-01, May).  The philcomm division of ICA as seen from the margins by a formerly fem-us rebellious ragamuffin:  A personal reflection. Paper presented at the International Communication Association annual meeting, New Orleans, LA. (Published as 2005-01).  

 

Dervin, B. (2004-02, December).  Libraries reaching out with health information to vulnerable populations:  Guidance from research on information seeking and use.  Paper presented to National Library of Medicine Symposium on Community-Based Health Information Outreach, Bethesda, MD.  (Published as 2005-02).  Power-point version available at: <http://communication.sbs.ohio-state.edu/sense-making/art/artabsdervin04nlm.html>.

 

Dervin B. & Song, M. (2004-03, May).  Communication as a field -- historical origins, diversity as strength/weakness, orientation toward research in the public interest:  54 brief ruminations from field grandparents, parents, and a few feisty grandchildren.  Background paper for plenary session on "Strengths of our methodological divides,"  International Communication Association annual meeting, New Orleans, LA.  (Portions published in 2005-05)

 

Dervin, B. (2004-04, September).  Sense-making in professional communication.  Lecture presented at Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.  Audio available at: <http://www.video.komm.ruc.dk/20040930/bd.mp3>. 

 

Foreman-Wernet, L. & Dervin, B. (2004-05, October).  A study comparing audience uses of the arts and popular culture:  Applying a common methodological framework.  Paper presented to the 30th annual Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts Conference, Arlington, VA.


2004: Books for which Dervin served as supervising editor

Pietila, V. (2004). On the highway of mass communication studies. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.


2003: Publications

Dervin, B. (2003-30). Human studies and user studies: A call for methodological inter-disciplinarity.  Information Research, 9 (1, October). [Online Serial] <http://information.net/ir/9-1/paper166.html>  

 

Dervin, B. (2003-02). Sense-Making's journey from metatheory to methodology to method: An example using information seeking and use as research focus. In Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.), Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 133-164). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Expanded version of 1999-04; published version of 1999-08.)

Dervin, B. (2003-07). The zero problem, Richard F. Carter, and me. In B. Dervin & S. H. Chaffee (with L. Foreman-Wernet). (Eds.), Communication: A different kind of horse race: Essays honoring Richard F. Carter (pp. 322-325). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

Dervin, B. (with Carter, R. F.). (2003-08). Richard F. Carter: A biographical and bibliographical chronology. In B. Dervin & S. H. Chaffee with Foreman-Wernet, L. (Eds.), Communication: A different kind of horse race: Essays honoring Richard F. Carter (pp. 339-357). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

Dervin, B., & Chaffee, S. H. (2003-05). How Richard F. Carter helps: Aphorisms as traces. In B. Dervin & S. H. Chaffee (with L. Foreman-Wernet). (Eds.), Communication: A different kind of horse race: Essays honoring Richard F. Carter (pp. 359-367). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

Dervin, B., & Chaffee, S. H. (with Foreman-Wernet, L.). (2003-06). Communication: A different kind of horserace: Essays honoring Richard F. Carter. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (2003-04). On the necessity of theorizing responsive media design. In B. Dervin & S. H. Chaffee with Foreman-Wernet, L. (Eds.), Communication: A different kind of horse race: Essays honoring Richard F. Carter (pp. 259-277). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (with Lauterbach, E.) (Eds.). (2003-03). Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

Huesca, R., & Dervin, B. (2003-25). Hypertext and journalism: Audience response to competing news narratives. In H. Jenkins & D. Thorburn (Eds.), Democracy and new media. (281-307). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Contains material presented as 1999-21.)

 

2003: Reprints of prior publications
Dervin, B. (2003-19). A theoretic perspective and research approach for generating research helpful to communication practice. In Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.), Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 251-268). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Reprint of 1984-01; contains material presented as 1983-06.)

Dervin, B. (2003-17). Audience as listener and learner, teacher and confidante: The Sense-Making approach. In Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.), Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 215-232). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Reprint of 1989-03.)

Dervin, B. (2003-23). Chaos, order and Sense-Making: A proposed theory for information design. In Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.), Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 325-340). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Reprint of 1999-06.)

Dervin, B. (2003-09). Communication gaps and inequities: Moving toward a reconceptualization. In Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.), Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 17-46). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Reprint of 1980-01.)

Dervin, B. (2003-11). Comparative theory reconceptualized: From entities and states to processes and dynamics. In Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.), Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 61-72). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Reprint of 1991-01.)

Dervin, B. (2003-20). From the mind's eye of the user: The Sense-Making qualitative-quantitative methodology. In Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.), Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 269-292). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Reprint of 1992-01.)

Dervin, B. (2003-14). Given a context by any other name: Methodological tools for taming the unruly beast. In Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.), Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 111-132). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Reprint of 1997-01; contains material presented as 1996-01.)

Dervin, B. (2003-12). Information <--> democracy: An examination of underlying assumptions. In Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.), Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 73-100). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Reprint of 1994-01.)

Dervin, B. (2003-21). Information as non-sense; information as sense: The communication technology connection. In Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.), Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 293-308). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Reprint of 1991-02; contains material presented as 1991-08.)

Dervin, B. (2003-16). Mass communicating: Changing conceptions of the audience. In Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.), Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 197-214). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Reprint of 1981-01; contains material presented as 1980-07.)

Dervin, B. (2003-10). Users as research inventions: How research categories perpetuate inequities. In Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.), Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 47-60). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Reprint of 1989-01; contains material presented as 1989-09.)

Dervin, B. (2003-13). Verbing communication: Mandate for disciplinary invention. In Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.), Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 101-110). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Reprint of 1993-01.)

Dervin, B., & Clark, K. D. (2003-15). Communication and democracy: A mandate for procedural invention. In Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.), Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 165-194). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Reprint of 1993-10; contains material presented as 1988-08.)

Dervin, B., & Frenette, M. (2003-18). Sense-Making Methodology: Communicating communicatively with campaign audiences. In Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.), Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 233-251). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Reprint of 2001-01.)

Dervin, B., & Huesca, R. (2003-22). Practicing journalism communicatively: Moving from journalism practiced as ideology to journalism practiced as theorized practice. In Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.), Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 309-324). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Reprint of 2001-02.)

Dervin, B., & Schaefer, D. (2003-24). Peopling the public sphere. In Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.), Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 341-348). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Reprint of 1999-01.)

 

 

2003: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (2003-26. May). A Sense-Making Methodology primer: What is methodological about Sense-Making. Paper presented at a non-divisional workshop held at the meeting of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA.

 

Romanello, S.; Dervin, B.; & Fortner, R. (2003-27, May). Sense-Making as a methodology to inform interdisciplinary communication of scientific uncertainty of global climate change. Paper presented at a non-divisional workshop held at the meeting of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA.

 

Foreman-Wernet, L. & Dervin, B. (2003-28, May). Understanding Inactive Publics: An Exemplar Audience Study in the Arts. Paper presented at a non-divisional workshop held at the meeting of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA.

 

Schaefer, D. & Dervin, B. (2003-29). The constitution and distortion of electronic public spheres: A conceptual and empirical rethinking of online communication outcomes as verbing micro-practices. Paper presented at a non-divisional workshop held at the meeting of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA.

 

 

2003: Books for which Dervin served as supervising editor

Bertrand, C. J. (2003). An arsenal for democracy. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Galtung, J. & Vincent, R. (2003). U.S. glasnost: Missing political themes in U.S. media discourse. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

Martin, B. & Varney, W. (2003). Nonviolence speaks: Communicating against repression. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Ross, K., & Derman, D. (2003). Mapping the margins: Identity politics and the media. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

2001: Publications

Dervin, B. (2001-06). You mean he didn't always have a phone attached to his ear? In E. Karvonen & Pietilainen (Eds.), Kaarle Nordenstreng: Viestintatieteen suurlahettilas [Kaarle Nordenstreng: Ambassador of Communication Research] (pp. 254-256). Tampere, Finland: Tampere University Press.

 

Dervin, B., & Frenette, M. (2001-01). Sense-Making Methodology: Communicating communicatively with campaign audiences. In R. E. Rice & C. K. Atkin (Eds.), Public communication campaigns (3rd ed., pp. 69-87). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (Reprinted as 2003-18.)

 

Dervin, B., & Huesca, R. (2001-02). Practicing journalism communicatively: Moving from journalism practiced as ideology to journalism practiced as theorized procedure. In S. R. Melkote & S. Rao (Eds.), Critical issues in communication, looking inward for answers: Essays in honor of K. E. Eapen (pp. 321-344). New Delhi, India: Sage. (Reprinted as 2003-22.)

 

Dervin, B., & Schaefer, D. J. (2001-07). Beyond rhetorical and representational dialogue. Peace and Policy: Journal of the Toda Institute for Peace and Policy Research, 6, 29-33.

 

2001: Published poems

Dervin, B. (2001-08). 11 September 2001. Peace and Policy: Journal of the Toda Institute for Peace and Policy Research, 6, 59.

 

2001: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (2001-05, February). Clear-unclear? Accurate-inaccurate? Objective-subjective? Research-practice? Why polarities impede the research, practice, and design of information systems and how Sense-Making Methodology attempts to bridge the gaps. Lazerow lecture delivered to the School of Information Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.

Dervin, B., Foreman-Wernet, L., Jansen, S. C., Schaefer, D., & Shields, P. (2001-03, May). Freedom is another word for nothing left to lose: On the inextricable necessity of theorizing <---->philosophizing in disciplining communication policy/practice. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Washington, DC.

Schaefer, D. J., & Dervin, B. (2001-04, July). Dialoguing in electronic public spheres: Reconceptualizing participation as verbing micro-practices. Paper presented at the annual Rochester Intercultural Conference, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

Dervin, B. (2001-09, October).  What we know about information seeking and use and how research discourse community makes a different in our knowing.  Literature review prepared for Health Information Programs Development, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, October 22.

 

2001: Books for which Dervin served as supervising editor

Houston, M., & Davis, O. I. (2002). Centering ourselves: African American feminist and womanist studies of discourse. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Richards, M., Thomas, P., & Nain, Z. (2001). Communication and development: The Freirean connection. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

Rodriguez, A. (2001). On matters of liberation (I): The case against hierarchy. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Rodriquez, C. (2001). Fissures in the Mediascape: An International Study of Citizen's media. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

Toth, E. L., & Aldoory, L. (2001). The Gender Challenge to Media. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

 

2000: Publications

Dervin, B. (2000-02). Communications: Overview. In C. Kramarae & D. Spender (Eds.), Routledge international encyclopedia of women: Global women's issues and knowledge, Vol. 1 (pp. 195-196). New York: Routledge.
 

Dervin, B. (2000-01). Tosisaan tohtoroitu Suomen tapaan [On being doctor-doctored in Finland]. Tiedotustutkimus, 3, 82-87.

 

2000: Reprints of prior publications

Dervin, B. (2000-05). El alguna parte entre la poesia y la prosa, el hecho y el sentimiento, las superficies y los secretos, Luis Ramiro Beltran, el campo de la comunicacion en EE. UU. y yo [Somewhere between poetry and prose, fact and feeling, surfaces and secret senses: Luis Ramiro Beltran, the U.S. communication field, and me]. In L. R. Beltran Salmon (Ed.), Investigacionen Latinameica: Inicio, transcendencia y proyeccion (pp. 179-189). La Paz, Bolivia: Plural Editores. (Reprint of 1998-11.)

2000: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B., Wyszomirski, M., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (2000-03, October). How hidden depths and everyday secrets can inform arts policy and practice: Audience sense-making of the arts as lived experience. Paper presented at the annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts, Washington, DC.

Foreman-Wernet, L., & Dervin, B. (2000-04, November). Beyond domination and resistance: Looking for "something more" in audience interpretations of popular and elite culture. Paper presented at the annual convention of the National Communication Association, Seattle, WA.

 

 

2000: Books for which Dervin served as supervising editor

Hardman, M. J., & Taylor, A. (2000). Hearing many voices. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Kersten, K. F. (2000). Value and communication: Critical humanistic perspectives. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

 

1999: Publications

Dervin, B. (1999-06). Chaos, order, and Sense-Making: A proposed theory for information design. In R. Jacobson (Ed.), Information design (pp. 35-57). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Reprinted as 2003-23.)

Dervin, B. (1999-04). On studying information seeking methodologically: The implications of connecting meta theory to method. Information Processing and Management, 35, 727-750. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. EJ 601 992). (Portions of this article drawn from 1999-08; the full 1999-08 paper printed as 2003-03.)

Dervin, B., & Clark, K. D. (1999-11). Exemplars of the use of the Sense-Making Methodology (meta-theory and method): In-depth introduction to the Sense-Making issues of the Electronic Journal of Communication. Electronic Journal of Communication, 9 (2).

Dervin, B., Harpring, J. E., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (1999-12). In moments of concern: A Sense-Making study of pregnant, drug-addicted women and their information needs. Electronic Journal of Communication, 9 (2).

 

Dervin, B., & Huesca, R. (1999-07). The participatory communication for development narrative: An examination of meta-theoretic assumptions and their impacts. In T. L. Jacobson & J. Servaes (Eds.), Theoretical approaches to participatory communication (pp. 169-210). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Contains material originally presented as 1995-04 & 1996-04.)

Dervin, B., & Schaefer, D. (1999-01). Peopling the public sphere. Peace Review, 11 (1), 17-23. (Reprinted as 2003-24.)

Dervin, B., & Shields, P. (1999-05). Adding the missing user to policy discourse: Understanding US user telephone privacy concerns. Telecommunications Policy, 23, 403-435. (Originally presented as 1996-06 and again as 1997-08 [revised version of 1996-06].)

 

Brendlinger, N., Dervin, B., & Foreman-Wernet, L. (1999-13). When respondents are theorists: An exemplar study in the HIV/AIDS context of the use of Sense-Making as an approach to public communication campaign audience research. Electronic Journal of Communication, 9 (2).

Cheuk, B. W., & Dervin, B. (1999-17). A qualitative Sense-Making study of the information seeking situations faced by professionals in their workplace contexts. Electronic Journal of Communication, 9 (4).

Clark, K. D., & Dervin, B. (1999-19). Exemplars of the use of Sense-Making Methodology. Electronic Journal of Communication, 9 (2).

Dworkin, M., Foreman-Wernet, L., & Dervin, B. (1999-14). Sense-Making and television news: An inquiry into audience interpretations. Electronic Journal of Communication, 9 (3).

 

Nilan, M. S., & Dervin, B. (1999-16). Beyond agency to structure: Moving quantitative Sense-Making studies to a focus on both societal structural arrangements and information seeking agency. Electronic Journal of Communication, 9 (4).

 

Spirek, M. M., Dervin, B., Nilan, M., & Martin, M. (1999-15). Bridging gaps between audience and media: A Sense-Making comparison of reader information needs in life-facing versus newspaper reading contexts. Electronic Journal of Communication, 9 (3).

 

 

1999: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1999-08, May). Sense-Making's journey from meta-theory to methodology to method: An example using information seeking and use as research focus. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, San Francisco. (Major portions of this paper published as 1999-04; the full 1999-08 paper printed as 2003-03).

Dervin, B. (1999-09, May). Sense-Making's theory of dialogue: A brief introduction. In B. Dervin & M. Frenette, Methodology between the cracks: Sense-Making as exemplar (pp. 4-9). Working papers of the Non-Divisional Workshop, presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, San Francisco.

Dervin, B., & M. Frenette. (1999-20). Methodology between the cracks: Sense-Making as exemplar. Working papers of the Non-Divisional Workshop, presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, San Francisco.

Huesca, R., & Dervin, B. (1999-21, October). Hypertext and journalism: Audiences respond to competing news narrative. Paper presented at the Media-in-Transition Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Revision of 1999-10). (Portions published as: Huesca, R., & Dervin, B. [In press-01].)

 

Huesca, R., Dervin, B., Burwell, J., Drake, D., Nirenberg, R., Smith, R., & Yeager, N. (1999-10, August). Inverted pyramids versus hypertexts: A qualitative study of readers' responses to competing narrative forms. Paper presented at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA. (Portions published as: Huesca, R., & Dervin, B. [In press-01].)

 

 

1999: Books for which Dervin served as supervising editor

Duncan, K. (1999). Liberating alternatives: The founding convention of the cultural environment movement. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Shanahan, J., & McComas, K. (1999). Nature stories: Depictions of the Environment and their Effects. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

 

1998: Publications
Dervin, B. (1998-11). El alguna parte entre la poesia y la prosa, el hecho y el sentimiento, las superficies y los secretos, Luis Ramiro Beltran, el campo de la comunicacion en EE. UU. y yo [Somewhere between poetry and prose, fact and feeling, surfaces and secret senses: Luis Ramiro Beltran, the U.S. communication field, and me]. In J. M. deMelo & J. G. Brittes (Eds.), A trajectoria communicational de Luiz Ramiro Beltran (pp. 77-86). Sao Paulo, Brazil: Catedra UNESCO de Communicao para odesenvolvimento regional y Universidade Metodista de Sao Paulo. (Reprinted in 2000-05.)

 

Dervin, B. (1998-08). Sense-Making theory and practice: An overview of user interests in knowledge seeking and use. Journal of Knowledge Management, 2 (2), 36-46.

Dervin, B. (1998-09). The year 2000 problem: A communication commentary. In National Regulatory Research Institute: In the public interest: Public utility commission leadership in Y2K mitigation and preparation (section 9, 5 pages). Columbus, OH: NRRI, Ohio State University.

 

Dervin, B., & Shields, P. (1998-07). Some guidelines for a philosophy of communicating with citizens in the new regulatory environment. In F. Sevel (Ed.), Compendium on consumer education (pp. 69-85). Columbus, OH: National Regulatory Research Institute, Ohio State University.

 

Shields, P., & Dervin, B. (1998-06). Telephone privacy: Residential user perspectives and strategies. Media International Australia, 87, 95-113. (Originally presented as 1996-06 and again as 1997-08 [revised version of 1996-06].)

 

 

1998: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B., & Schaefer, D. J. (1998-10, March). Toward the communicative design of information design: A call for considering the communicating implied in the mandate for information design. Paper presented to Vision Plus 4: The Republic of Information, An International Symposium for Design for Global Communication, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

 

 

1998: Books for which Dervin served as supervising editor

Harris, C. (1998). Theorizing fandom: Fans, subculture, and identity. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Kersten, K. F. S., & Biernatzki, W. E. S. (1998). Value and communication: Critical humanistic perspectives. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

Lamberton, D. M. (1998). Communication and Trade: Essays in Honor of Meheroo Jussawalla. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

 

1997: Publications

Dervin, B. (1997-01). Given a context by any other name: Methodological tools for taming the unruly beast. In P. Vakkari, R. Savolainen, & B. Dervin (Eds.), Information seeking in context (pp. 13-38). London: Taylor Graham. (Reprinted as 2003-14; originally presented as 1996-01.)

Dervin, B., & Fraser, B. (1997-03). Helps users obtain from their library visits. In J. B. Whitlatch (Ed.), Reference assessment manual. Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press. (ALA Reference & Adult Services Division Evaluation Committee).

Dervin, B., & Huesca, R. (1997-09). Reaching for the communicating in participatory communication. Journal of International Communication, 4 (2), 46-74. (Contains material originally presented as 1996-04 & 1995-04.)

 

Vakkari, P., Savolainen, R., & Dervin, B. (Eds.). (1997-06). Information seeking in context. London: Taylor Graham.

 

 

1997: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1997-07). Evaluation of the May 30, 1997 Electric Restructuring Education Group (EREG) Consumer Education Plan (CEP) proposed marketing plan. Report submitted to the California Public Utility Commission, San Francisco.

Shields, P., & Dervin, B. (1997-08, May). Telephone privacy: User perspectives and strategies and their policy implications. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Mass Communication Research, Montreal, Canada. (Published as 1999-05 & 1998-06). 

 

1996: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1996-01, August). Given a context by any other name: Methodological tools for taming the unruly beast. Keynote address delivered at ISIC 96, Conference on Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts, Department of Information Studies, University of Tampere and Finnish Association of Library and Information Science, Tampere, Finland. (Published as 1997-01; portions also published in 2003-14.)

Dervin, B. (1996-02, February). Information needs and information seeking: The search for questions behind the research agenda. Research agenda paper for UCLA-NSF Workshop on Social Aspects of Digital Libraries, Los Angeles.

Dervin, B., (with Bates, M., Case, D., Fidel, R., Kuhlthau, C., & Marchionini, G.). (1996-03, February). Report of the break-out group on information needs and information seeking; convened at UCLA-NSF Workshop on Social Aspects of Digital Libraries. Presented at the UCLA-NSF Workshop on Social Aspects of Digital Libraries, Los Angeles.

Dervin, B., & Huesca, R. (1996-04, August). The participatory communication for development narrative: An examination of meta-theoretical assumptions and their impacts. Paper presented at the bi-annual meeting of the International Association for Mass Communication Research, Sydney, Australia. (Published as 1997-09 & 1999-07).

Huesca, R., & Dervin, B. (1996-05, August). Rethinking the journalistic interview: Empowering sources to name the world. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, DC.

Shields, P., & Dervin, B. (1996-06). Telephone privacy from the perspective of residential users: A preliminary exploration. Paper presented at the bi-annual meeting of the International Association for Mass Communication Research, Sydney, Australia. (Published as 1999-05 & 1998-06).

 

 

1996: Books for which Dervin served as supervising editor

Jaska, J. A. (1996). Responsible communication: Ethical issues in business, industry, and the professions. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Manderville, T. D. (1996). Understanding novelty: Information, technological change, and the patent system. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

1995: Publications

Dervin, B. (1995-01). The relationship of user-centered evaluation to design: Addressing issues of productivity and power. SIGOIS Bulletin, 15 (2), 42-46. (Contains material presented as 1995-02.)

 

 

1995: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1995-03). Evaluation of the October 11, 1995 Pacific Bell customer notification and education plan on CPN delivery. Report submitted to the California Public Utility Commission, Commission Advisory and Compliance Division, San Francisco.

 

Dervin, B. (1995-02, October). The relationship of user-centered evaluation to design: Addressing issues of productivity and power. Comments delivered at the Allerton Institute on How We do User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Digital Libraries: A Methodological Forum, Allerton Park and Conference Center, University of Illinois, Monticello, IL. (Portions of this paper published as 1995-01).

Huesca, R., & Dervin, B. (1995-04). Participation and development: An examination of underlying assumptions. Paper presented to the Participatory Communication Research Section, International Association for Communication Research, Portoroz, Slovenia. (Portions published as 1997-09& 1999-07).

 

 

1995: Books for which Dervin served as supervising editor

Corcoran, F. & Preston, P. (1995). Democracy and Communication in the New Europe: Change and Continuity in East and West. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press and International Association of Mass Communication Research.

Morgan, M., & Shanahan, J. (1995). Democracy tango: Television, adolescents, and authoritarian tensions in Argentina. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Priest, P. J. (1995). Public Intimacies: Talk Show Participants and Tell-All TV. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc.

 

 

1994: Publications

Dervin, B. (1994-01). Information <----> democracy: An examination of underlying assumptions. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 45 (6), 369-385. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. EJ 488 232). (Referred) (Reprinted as 2003-12.)

Dervin, B. (1994-02). [Review of the book Why information systems fail: A case study approach]. Prometheus, 12 (2), 268-270.

Dervin, B. (1994-04). Whose effects are they, anyway? Or how can you find effects in all this fog? In C. J. Hamelink & O. Linne (Eds.), Mass communication research: On problems and policies: The art of asking the right questions (Festschrift honoring James D. Halloran) (pp. 121-129). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Huesca, R., & Dervin, B. (1994-03). Theory and practice in Latin American alternative communication research. Journal of Communication, 44 (4), 53-73. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. EJ 492 791.)

 

 

1994: Reprints of prior publications

Dervin, B. (1994-05). Verbing communication: Mandate for disciplinary invention. In M. R. Levy & M. Gurevitch (Eds.). Defining media studies (pp. 53-62). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. (Reprint of 1993-01).

1994: Books for which Dervin served as supervising editor

Anderson, R., Cissna, K. N., & Arnett, R. C. (1994). The Reach of Dialogue: Confirmation, Voice and Community. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

Braun, M. J. (1994). AM Stereo and the FCC: Case Study of a Marketplace Shibboleth. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Hamelink, C. J., & Linne, O. (1994). Mass Communication Research: On Problems and Policies: The Art of Asking the Right Questions: In Honor of James D. Halloran. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

Hanson, J. (1994). Advances in Telematics, Volume 2. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

McDaniel, D. O. (1994). Broadcasting in the Malay World: Radio, Television, and Video in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Ruggles, M. A. (1994). The Audience Reflected in the Medium of Law: A Critique of the Political Economy of Speech Rights in the United States. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Splichal, S. & Sparks, C. (1994). Journalists for the 21st Century: Tendencies of Professionalization Among First-year Students in 22 Countries. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

 

1993: Publications

Dervin, B. (1993-08). Dallas Smythe: Epilogue as prologue. In J. Wasko, V. Mosco & M. Pendakur (Eds.), Illuminating the blindspots: Essays honoring Dallas W. Smythe (pp. 401-409). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Dervin, B. (1993-02). [Review of the book Chaos bound: Orderly disorder in contemporary literature and science]. Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 10 (4), 439-440.

Dervin, B. (1993-03). [Review of the book Communication and citizenship: Journalism and the public sphere in the new media age]. European Journal of Communication, 8 (3), 388-390.

Dervin, B. (1993-04). [Review of the book The information world of retired women]. Library Quarterly, 63 (4), 532-533.

Dervin, B. (1993-01). Verbing communication: Mandate for disciplinary invention. Journal of Communication, 43 (3), 45-54. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. EJ 466 763). (Reprinted as 2003-13; and also as 1994-05.)

Dervin, B., & Clark, K. D. (1993-10). Communication and democracy: A mandate for procedural invention. In S. Splichal & J. Wasko (Eds.), Communication and democracy (pp. 103-140). Norwood, NJ: Ablex. (Reprinted as 2003-15; originally presented as 1988-08.)

Dervin, B., & Hariharan, U. (Eds.). (1993-11). Progress in communication sciences: Vol. 11. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Dervin, B., Osborne, T., Jaikumar-Mahey, P., Huesca, R., & Higgins, J. (1993-05). Toward a communication theory of dialogue. Media Development, XL (2), 54-61. (Contains material presented as 1992-02 &1993-12.)

 

Shields, P., Dervin, B., Richter, C., & Soller, R. E. (1993-06). Who needs "POTS-plus" services?: A comparison of residential user needs along the rural-urban continuum. Telecommunications Policy, 17 (8), 563-587. (Originally presented as 1992-04 & 1992-05.)

 

Shields, V. R., & Dervin, B. (1993-07). Sense-Making in feminist social science research: A call to enlarge the methodological options of feminist studies. Women's Studies International Forum, 16 (1), 65-81. (Originally presented as 1991-07.)

 

 

1993: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B., Osborne, T., Jaikumar-Mahey, P., Huesca, R., & Higgins, J. (1993-12, May). Dialogue as communication: The in-between of modernity/post-modernity. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Washington, DC. (Revision of 1992-02; portions of this paper published as 1993-05).

 

 

1993: Books for which Dervin served as supervising editor

Arno, A. (1993). The World of Talk on a Fijian Island: An Ethnography of Law and Communicative Causation. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Ayres, J., & Hopf, T. (1993). Coping with Speech Anxiety. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Chang, T.-K. (1993). The Press and China Policy: The Illusion of Sino-American Relations 1950-1984. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Cohen, A. A., & Wolfsfeld, G. (1993). Framing the Intifada: People and Media. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Conrad, C. (1993). The Ethical Nexus: Values, Communication and Organizational Decisions. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Ernst, M. L., Oettinger, A. G., Branscomb, A. W., Rubin, J. S., & Wilker, J. (1993). Mastering the Changing Information World. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Gerbner, G., Mowlana, H., & Nordenstreng, K. (1993). The Global Media Debate: Its Rise, Fall, and Renewal. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

Greenberg, B. S., & Gantz, W. (1993). Desert Storm and the mass media. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Horning, A. S. (1993). The Psycholinguistics of Readable Writing. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Lacy, S., & Simon, T. F. (1993). The Economics and Regulation of United States Newspapers. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

McCoy, T. S. (1993). Voices of difference: Studies in critical philosophy and mass communication. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Noam, E. M., & Millonzi, J. C. (1993). The International Market in Film and Television Programs. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Nordenstreng, K. & Schiller, H. (1993). Beyond national sovereignty. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Splichal, S., & Wasko, J. E. (1993). Communication and democracy. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Wasko, J., Mosco, V., & Pendakur, M. (1993). Illuminating the Blindspots: Essays Honoring Dallas W. Smythe. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Wolvin, A. D., & Coakley, C. G. (1993). Perspectives on Listening (The Communication and Information Science). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

 

1992: Publications

Dervin, B. (1992-01). From the mind's eye of the user: The Sense-Making qualitative-quantitative methodology. In J. D. Glazier & R. R. Powell (Eds.), Qualitative research in information management (pp. 61-84). Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited. (Reprinted as 2003-20.)

 

 

1992: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B., Jaikumar-Mahey, P., Osborne, T., Huesca, R., & Higgins, J. (1992-02, August). The problematics of dialogue: Some ideas in the process of becoming. Paper presented at the International Association of Mass Communication Research conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Revised version presented as 1993-12; portions published as 1993-05.)

Dervin, B., & Lane, E. S. (1992-03, October). Information for real people. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Pittsburgh, PA.

Shields, P., Dervin, B., Richter, C., Soller, R. E., & Creatura, L. (1992-04, August). Who needs "POTS-plus" services?: A comparison of residential user needs along the rural-urban continuum. Paper presented at the International Association of Mass Communication Research conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Earlier version of 1992-05; portions published in 1993-06).

Shields, P., Dervin, B., Soller, R. E., & Richter, C. (1992-05, May). A comparison of the use and uses of 'POTS-plus' services by urban, urbanized rural, and rural residential telephone users in Ohio. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Miami, FL. (CAST Working File 1991-021). (Revision of 1992-04; published as 1993-06).

 

 

1992: Books for which Dervin served as supervising editor

Galtung, J., & Vincent, R. C. (1992). Global Glasnost: Toward a New World Information and Communication Order? Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

Ganley, G. D. (1992). The Exploding Political Power of Personal Media. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Gonzalez-Manet, E. (1992). Informantics and Society: The New Challenges. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Haslett, B., Geis, F. L., & Carter, M. R. (1992). The Organizational Woman: Power and Paradox. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Wober, J. M. (1992). Television and Nuclear Power: Making the Public Mind. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Wood, J. T. (1992). Spinning the Symbolic Web: Human Communication and Symbolic Interaction. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

 

1991: Publications

Dervin, B. (1991-01). Comparative theory reconceptualized: From entities and states to processes and dynamics. Communication Theory, 1 (1), 59-69. (Reprinted as 2003-11.)

Dervin, B. (1991-02). Information as non-sense; information as sense: The communication technology connection. In H. Bouwman, P. Nelissen & M. Voojis (Eds.), Tussen vraag en aanbod (pp. 44-59). Amsterdam, Holland: Otto Cramwinckel Uitgever. (Reprinted as 2003-21; originally presented as 1991-08.)

Dervin, B. (Ed.). (1991-03). Progress in communication sciences: Vol. 10. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

 

1991: Reprints of prior publications

Dervin, B. (1991-09). Useful theory for librarianship: Communication, not information. In G. Walker (Ed.), The information environment: Interactions between society and technology. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co.). (Reprint of 1977-02).

1991: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1991-05). Design for focus groups for phone user constituencies. Unpublished manuscript.

Dervin, B. (1991-08, March). Information as sense; information as non-sense: The communication connection. Keynote address presented at Sommatie '91: Netherlands Communication Association annual meeting, Veldhoven, Netherlands. (Published as 1991-02; portions also published as 2003-21.)

Dervin, B. (1991-04). The content analysis of Sense-Making responses: An introduction to methodology and method. Unpublished manuscript.

 

Shields, V. R., & Dervin, B. (1991-07, May). Making sense of methodology: On feminist scholarship and sense-making research. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Chicago. (Published as 1993-07).

 

 

1991: Books for which Dervin served as supervising editor

Casmir, F. L. (1991). Communication in Development. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Goldman, R., & Rajagopal, A. (1991). Mapping Hegemony: Television News Coverage of Industrial Conflict. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Greenberg, K. J. (1991). Conversations on Communication Ethics. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Hackett, R. A. (1991). News and Dissent: The Press and the Politics of Peace in Canada. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Neuman, S. B. (1991). Literacy in the Television Age: The Myth of the TV. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

O'Heffernan, P. (1991). Mass Media and American Foreign Policy. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

O'Neill, J. (1991). Plato's Cave: Desire, Power, and the Secular Functions of the Media. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Singh, I. B. & Hanson, J. (1991). Advances in Telematics, Volume 1. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.


1990: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1990-02, November). Communication: Society's glue, for better, for worse. Paper presented at PUHE 90, Finnish Communication Conference, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.

 

Dervin, B. (1990-01, August). Journalism procedure as ideology. Paper presented at seminar on Models of Journalism-West, East, and South, International Journalism Institute, Budapest, Hungary.

Dervin, B., (with Isgro, K.). (1990-03, June). Illusions of equality, reifications of inequality: Problems in leadership research. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Dublin, Ireland.

 

Dervin, B., & Clark, K. D. (with Porco, J., Bennett, S., & Hariharan, U.). (1990-05). Strategies for increasing flexibility in communicating risk and risk assessment: Reports 1-3 (Grant No. 88/89-03). Reports to the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority.

 

Dervin, B., & Shields, P. (1990-04, August). Users: The missing link in technology research. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Mass Communication Research, Lake Bled, Yugoslavia.

 

Dervin, B., et al. (1990-06). The development of a research-based training program designed to assist OEPA staff in handling citizen communication mandates for remedial responses: Reports 1-3. Reports presented to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Columbus, OH.

 

 

1990: Books for which Dervin served as supervising editor

Abelman, R., & Hoover, S. M. (1990). Religious Television: Controversies and Conclusions. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Gumpert, G., & Fish, S. L. (1990). Talking to Strangers: Mediated Therapeutic Communication. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Lundstedt, S. B. (1990). Telecommunications, Values, and the Public Interest. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Morris, R., & Ehrenhaus, P. (1990). Cultural Legacies of Vietnam: Uses of the Past in the Present. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Phillips, G. M. (1990). Teaching How to Work in Groups. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Tehranian, M. (1990). Technologies of Power: Information Machines and Democratic Prospects. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

 

1989: Publications
Dervin, B. (1989-03). Audience as listener and learner, teacher and confidante: The Sense-Making Approach. In R. Rice & C. Atkin (Eds.), Public communication campaigns (2nd ed., pp. 67-86). Newbury Park, CA: Sage. (Reprinted as 2003-17.)

Dervin, B. (1989-01). Users as research inventions: How research categories perpetuate inequities. Journal of Communication, 39 (3), 216-232. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. EJ 400 429). (Originally presented as 1989-09). (Reprinted as 2003-10.)

Dervin, B., & Clark, K. D. (1989-02). Communication as cultural identity: The invention mandate. Media Development, 36 (2), 5-8. (Contains material originally presented as 1988-09 & 1989-10.)

Dervin, B., Grossberg, L., O'Keefe, B., & Wartella, E., (Eds.). (1989-05). Rethinking communication: Vol. 2: Paradigm exemplars. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

 

Dervin, B., Grossberg, L., O'Keefe, B., & Wartella, E., (Eds.). (1989-04). Rethinking communication: Vol. 1: Issues. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Dervin, B., & Voigt, M. J., (Eds.). (1989-06). Progress in communication sciences: Vol. 9. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

 

 

1989: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1989-09, January). Categorizations of user sin telecommunications research: Perpetuating myths, reifying inequities. Paper presented at the 11th annual meeting of the Pacific Telecommunications Council, Honolulu, HI. (Published as 1989-01; portions published as 2003-10).

Dervin, B. (1989-08, May). Implementing the gap idea: A review of the Sense-Making Approach and its uses in cross-cultural applications. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Chicago.

 

Dervin, B. (1989-10, October). The mandates of a communication theory of inter-cultural communication. Paper presented to the World Association for Christian Communication, Manila, Philippines. (Published as 1989-02).

 

Dervin, B., & Hariharan, U. (1989-07). The communication needs of the Hispanic population of the Los Angles area: Report #2: A survey of the information/communication needs and perceptions of church in a sample of Hispanics living in a three-county LA area. Report to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

 

 

1989: Books for which Dervin served as supervising editor

Carter, K., & Spitzack, C. (1989). Doing Research on Women's Communication: Perspectives on Theory and Method. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Ganley, O. H., & Ganley, G. D. (1989). To Inform or to Control? The New Communications Networks: Second Edition. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Jacobson, R. (1989). An "Open" Approach to Information Policy Making: A Case Study of the Moore Universal Telephone Service Act. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Kochen, M. (1989). The Small World. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Lawrence, J. S., & Timberg, B. (1989). Fair Use and Free Inquiry: Copyright Law and the New Media: Second Edition. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Rosengren, K. E., & Windahl, S. (1989). Media Matter: TV Use in Childhood and Adolescence. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Rush, R. R., & Allen, D. (1989). Communications at the Crossroads: The Gender Gap Connection. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

 

1988: Publications

Dervin, B. (1988-02). La estructura mundial de la informacion: contradicciones, communicacion y communidad. In El Dia en Libros Il Foro Internacional de Communicacion (pp. 49-56). Mexico City, Mexico: Sociedad Cooperative Publicaciones Mexicanas, S. C. L. (Originally presented as 1987-05; English version of this paper published as 1988-01.)

 

Dervin, B. (1988-01). The world information structure: Contradictions, communication invention, and community. Sogang Journal of Media and Culture, 6, 113-126. (Originally presented as 1987-05; also published in Spanish as 1988-02.)

1988: Reprints of prior publications

Dervin, B. (1988-06). "Meer" zal "minder" zijn, tenzij: Dewetenschappelijke vermenselijking van informatiesystemen [More will be less unless: The scientific humanization of information systems]. Kultuurleven: Maandblad voor kultuur en samenleving, 9, 813-816. (Reprint of 1983-01.)

1988: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1988-07, May). Communication procedures, ideology, and praxis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.

 

Dervin, B., & Clark, K. (1988-09, July). Communication as cultural identity: The Invention mandate. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association of Mass Communication Research, Barcelona, Spain. (Published as 1989-02).

 

Dervin, B., & Clark, K. (1988-08, July). Democratization of communication: The invention mandate. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association of Mass Communication Research, Barcelona, Spain. (Published as 1993-10; portions published as 2003-15.)

 

Dervin, B., Pilotta, J., Clark, K., Waldron, V., Shields, V., Albarran, A., & Hariharan, U. (1988-04). Report #1: Questionnaire transcriptions: Citizen communication needs and perceptions of risk relating to the Union Town toxic waste site. Report presented to Dr. Kim Mortenson, Chief, Division of Epidemiology, Bureau of Preventive Medicine, Ohio Department of Health.

 

Dervin, B., Waldron, V., Shields, V., Hariharan, U., Albarran, A., Teboul, B., & Clark, K. D. (1988-05). Report #2: Final report: Citizen communication needs and perceptions of risk relating to the Union Town toxic waste site. Report presented to Dr. Kim Mortenson, Chief, Division of Epidemiology, Bureau of Preventive Medicine, Ohio Department of Health.

 

Waldron, V. R., & Dervin, B. (1988-03). Sense-making as a framework for knowledge acquisition. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Ann Arbor, MI.

 

 

1988: Books for which Dervin served as supervising editor

Alexandre, L. (1988). The Voice of America: From Detente to the Reagan Doctrine. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Bate, B., & Taylor, A. (1988). Women Communicating: Studies of Women's Talk. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Carbaugh, D. (1988). Talking American: Cultural Discourses on Donahue. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Compaine, B. M. (1988). Issues in New Information Technology. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Gonzalez-Manet, E. (1988). The Hidden War of Information. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Hamelink, C. J. (1988). The Technology Gamble: Informatics and Public Policy: A Study of Technology Choice. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Heeter, C., & Greenberg, B. S. (1988). Cable viewing. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Jussawalla, M., Lamberton, D. M., & Karunaratne, N. D. (1988). The Cost of Thinking: Information Economies of Ten Pacific Countries. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Picard, R. G., Winter, J. P., McCombs, M. E., & Lacy, S. (1988). Press Concentration and Monopoly: New Perspectives on Newspaper Ownership and Operation. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Rubin, M. R. (1988). Private Rights, Public Wrongs: The Computer and Personal Privacy. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Weinhaus, C. L., & Oettinger, A. G. (1988). Behind the Telephone Debates. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

 

1987: Publications

Dervin, B. (1987-01). The potential contribution of feminist scholarship to the field of communication. Journal of Communication, 37(4), 107-120. (Originally presented as 1986-07). (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. EJ 367 212.)

Dervin, B., & Voigt, M. J., (Eds.). (1987-02). Progress in communication sciences: Vol. 8. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

 

 

1987: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1987-05, June). The structure of world information: A critical appraisal. Paper presented at the Second Mexican conference on International Communication, Mexico City, Mexico. (Published as 1988-01 &1988-02).

 

Dervin, B., & Clark, K. D. (1987-04). ASQ: Asking significant questions: Alternative tools for information need and accountability assessments by libraries. Sacramento, CA: California State Library (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 286 519.)

 

Clark, K. D., & Dervin, B. (1987-03, May). Facilitation or hindrance: Patient assessment of answers in healthcare visits. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

 

 

1987: Books for which Dervin served as supervising editor

Fisher, G. (1987). American Communication in a Global Society. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Lindlof, T. R. (1987). Natural Audiences: Qualitative Research of Media Uses and Effects. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Schement, J. R., & Lievrouw, L. (1987). Competing Visions, Complex Realities: Social Aspects of the Information Society. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Slack, J. D., & Fejes, F. (1987). The Ideology of the Information Age. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Stewart, L. P., & Ting-Toomey, S. (1987). Communication, Gender and Sex Roles in Diverse Interaction Contexts. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

Van Dinh, T. (1987). Communication and Diplomacy in a Changing World. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

 

1986: Publications

Dervin, B., & Dewdney, P. (1986-01). Neutral questioning: A new approach to the reference interview. RQ, 25 (4), 506-5l3. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. EJ 341 559.)

Dervin, B., & Nilan, M. (1986-02). Information needs and uses. In M. E. Williams (Ed.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 21, (pp. 3-33.)

Dervin, B., & Voigt, M. J., (Eds.). (1986-03). Progress in communication sciences: Vol. 7. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

1986: Reprints of prior publications

Dervin, B. (1986-11). More will be less. Communicator, 21(3 & 4), 44-46. (Reprint of 1983-01.)

 

 

1986: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1986-10, November). Communication and community. Paper presented at the Conference on Understanding the Media Situation, Rogaland Mediasenter, Stavanger, Norway.

Dervin, B. (1986-05, May). Communication imperatives for the new age. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Chicago.

 

Dervin, B. (1986-09, November). New tools for public opinion research. Keynote address delivered at the Conference on Public Opinion Assessment, Organization of Finnish Communicators, Helsinki, Finland.

Dervin, B. (1986-06, May). The healing nature of humanistic interviewing. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Chicago.

Dervin, B. (1986-07, May). The potential contribution of feminist scholarship to the field of communication. Presidential address delivered at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Chicago. (Published as 1987-01).

 

Dervin, B., & Clark, K. (1986-08, August). Communication procedures: The hidden ideological tools of structures. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association of Mass Communication Research, New Delhi, India.

 

Dworkin, M., & Dervin, B. (1986-04, May). Making sense with television news: A constructivist inquiry into situational interpretations by audiences. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Chicago.

 

 

1985: Publications

Dervin, B., & Voigt, M. J., (Eds.). (1985-01). Progress in communication sciences: Vol. 6. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

 

 

1985: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1985-04, May). Beyond polemics: Paradigm dialogues. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Honolulu, HI.

Dervin, B. (1985-05, May). Sense-making research as participatory communication. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Honolulu, HI.

Dervin, B., Fraser, B., (with Gilson, D., Pusateri, R., & Musselwhite, L. D.). (1985-03). How libraries help. Sacramento, A: California State Library. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 264 857.)

 

Dworkin, M., Dervin, B., (with Fraser, B., & Jae Chul Shim). (1985-02, May). A perspective on the convergence of two paradigms: British cultural studies and uses and gratifications. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Honolulu, HI.

 

1984: Publications

Dervin, B. (1984-01). A theoretic perspective and research approach for generating research helpful to communication practice. Public Relations Research and Education, 1 (1), 30-45. (Reprinted as 2003-19; originally presented as 1983-06.)

Dervin, B., & Voigt, M. J., (Eds.). (1984-02). Progress in communication sciences: Vol. 5. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

 

 

1984: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1984-06, April). Democratic communication and policy research: Macro versus micro issues. Paper presented at the 12th annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Airlie, VA.

Dervin, B. (1984-07, September). Micro procedures and macro structures in democratic communication system design. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Mass Communication Research, Prague, Czechoslovakia.

 

Dervin, B. (1984-05). The Information Needs of Californians, 1984: Report #2: Context, summary, conclusions, applications. Sacramento, CA: California State Library. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 267 801.)

 

Dervin, B., Ellyson, S., Hawkes, G., Guagnano, G., & White, N. (1984-04). The Information Needs of Californians, 1984: Report #1: Technical report. Sacramento, CA: California State Library. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 267 801.)

 

Dervin, B., Nilan, M., & Martin, M. (1984-03, May). Research for responsive media design: An example. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, San Francisco.

 

 

1983: Publications

Dervin, B. (1983-02). Information as a user construct: The relevance of perceived information needs to synthesis and interpretation. In S. A. Ward & L. J. Reed (Eds.), Knowledge structure and use: Implications for synthesis and interpretation (pp. l53-l83). Philadelphia: Temple University Press. (Originally presented as 1980-04.)

 

Dervin, B. (1983-01). More will be less unless: The scientific humanization of information systems. National Forum: The Phi Kappa Phi Journal, 63 (3), 20-21. (Reprinted in 1988-06 & 1986-05.)

Dervin, B., & Voigt, M. J., (Eds.). (1983-03). Progress in communication sciences: Vol. 4. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

 

 

1983: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1983-06, August). A theoretical perspective and research approach for generating research helpful to communication practice. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Corvallis. (Published as 1984-01; portions also published as 2003-19.)

Dervin, B. (1983-04, May). An overview of sense-making research: Concepts, methods, and results to date. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Dallas, TX.
 

Dervin, B., & Martin, M. (with Wittet, S., Shim, J. S., & Vachuda, T.). (1983-05). Leisure time sense-making needs: Reports 1-4. Reports commissioned by The Seattle Times, Seattle, WA.

 

 

1982: Publications

Dervin, B. (1982-01). Citizen access as an information equity issue. In J. R. Schement, F. Gutierrez & M. A. Sirbu Jr. (Eds.), Telecommunications policy handbook (pp. 290-302). New York: Praeger. (Originally presented as 1980-06.)

Dervin, B., Jacobson, T. L., & Nilan, M. S. (1982-02). Measuring aspects of information seeking: A test of a quantitative/qualitative methodology. In M. Burgoon (Ed.), Communication Yearbook: Vol. 6 (pp. 4l9-444). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books. (Originally presented as 1982-08.)

Dervin, B., & Voigt, M. J., (Eds.). (1982-03). Progress in communication sciences: Vol. 3. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

 

1982: Reprints of prior publications

Zweizig, D., & Dervin, B. (1982-07). Public library use, users, uses: Advances in knowledge of the characteristics and needs of the adult clientele of American public libraries. In J. Robbins-Carter (Ed.), Public librarianship: A reader. Littleton, CO: Libraries, Unlimited). (Reprint of 1977-05).

1982: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B., Jacobson, T. L., & Nilan, M. S. (1982-08, August). Measuring qualitative and relativistic aspects of information seeking: A test of quantitative-qualitative methodology. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association. (Published as 1982-02).

 

Dervin, B., & Nilan, M. (with Wittet, S., Krenz, C., Baker, S., Nickinovich, D., Kwan, C., House, E., Fraser, B., & McBride, T.). (1982-06). The situational roots of corporate images: Reports 1-4. Confidential report to a large corporation.

 

Dervin, B., Nilan, M. S., & Jacobson, T. L. (1982-05, May). Conducting helpful communications research: An approach with blood donors. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Boston.

 

Dervin, B., Nilan, M., Krenz, C., & Wittet, S. (1982-04). When cancer strikes: How cancer patients make sense of their health situations. Report presented to the National Cancer Institute, Washington, DC: National Cancer Institute.

 

 

1981: Publications

Dervin, B. (1981-01). Mass communicating: Changing conceptions of the audience. In R. E. Rice & W. J. Paisley (Eds.), Public communication campaigns (pp. 7l-87). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. (Reprinted in as 2003-16; originally presented as 1980-07.)

Dervin, B., Nilan, M. S., & Jacobson, T. L. (1981-02). Improving predictions of information use: A comparison of predictor types in a health communication setting. In M. Burgoon (Ed.), Communication Yearbook: Vol. 5 (pp. 807-830). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books. (Originally presented as 1981-04.)

 

Atwood, R., & Dervin, B. (1981-03). Challenges to sociocultural predictors of information seeking: A test of race versus situation movement state. In M. Burgoon (Ed.), Communication Yearbook: Vol. 5 (pp. 549-569). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books.

 

 

1981: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1981-04, May). Improving predictions of information use: A comparison of predictor types in a health communication setting. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Minneapolis, MN. (Published as 1981-02).

 

 

1980: Publications

Dervin, B. (1980-01). Communication gaps and inequities: Moving toward a reconceptualization. In B. Dervin & M. Voigt (Eds.), Progress in communication sciences (Vol. 2, pp. 73-112). Norwood, NJ: Ablex. (Reprinted as 2003-09.)

Dervin, B., Harlock, S., Atwood, R., & Garzona, C. (1980-02). The human side of information: An exploration in a health communication context. In D. Nimmo (Ed.), Communication Yearbook: Vol. 4 (pp. 59l-608). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books. (Originally presented as 1980-05.)

Dervin, B., & Voigt, M. J., (Eds.). (1980-03). Progress in communication sciences: Vol. 2. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

 

 

1980: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1980-06, April). Citizen access as an information equity issue. Paper presented at the 8th annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Annapolis, MD. (Published as 1982-01).

Dervin, B. (1980-04). Information as a user construct: The relevance of perceived information needs to synthesis and interpretation. Paper presented to the Research and Educational Practice Unit, National Institute for Education, Washington, DC. (Published as 1983-02).

Dervin, B. (1980-07, October). Mass communicating: Changing conceptions of the audience. Paper presented at the Stanford University Institute for Communications Research, Public Communications Campaign Conference, Asilomar, CA. (Published as 1981-01; portions published as 2003-16.)

 

Dervin, B. (1980-05, May). The human side of information: An exploration in a health communication context. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Health Communication Division, Acapulco, Mexico. (Published as 1980-02).

 

 

1979: Publications

Dervin, B. (1979-01). [Review of the book Public knowledge, private ignorance]. Journal of Communication, 29 (3), 232-233.

 

 

1979: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1979-03, February). A prerequisite for information equity: Individual sense-making. Paper presented at the Conference on Indicators of Equity in Information Dissemination Programs in Education, National Institute of Education, Washington, DC. (Originally presented as 1979-02.)

Dervin, B. (1979-04, May). Health communications division: Top three: A critique. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Philadelphia.

Dervin, B. (1979-05, February). Meeting individual informing needs in the midst of the information explosion of the 1980s. Speech presented in the Colloquium-Visiting Lecture Series of the All-University Gerontology Program, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.

Dervin, B. (1979-02, April). Sense-making as a prerequisite for information equality. Paper presented at the 7th Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Skytop, PA. (Also presented as 1979-03.)

Palmour, V., Rathbun, P., Brown, W., Dervin, B., & Dowd, P. (1979-06). The information needs of Californians. Report from King Research to California State Library, Sacramento, CA.

 

 

1978: Publications

Dervin, B. (1978-01). The human side of communication: 1978 Head's address. T & M Newsletter (November), 5-14. (Originally presented as 1978-06.)

Dervin, B. (1978-02). [Review of the book The interactional view]. Journal of Communication, 28 (3), 221-223.

 

 

1978: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1978-06). 1978 T & M Head's address: A critical preview of T & M research. Address presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism, Theory and Methodology Division, Seattle, WA. (Published as 1978-01).

 

Dervin, B. (1978-05, May). Communicating with the urban poor: An alternate perspective. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Chicago.

 

Dervin, B. (1978-04, January). The fallacious premises of health communication. Testimony presented to the National Commission on Digestive Diseases Public Hearing, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA.

 

Dervin, B. (1978-03, August). The influence of communication on access. Paper presented to Governor's Conference on Library and Information Services, Kirkland, WA.

Dervin, B., & Garzona, C. (1978-07). An analysis of the factors which differentiate women with different blood donating histories. Final report prepared for the Puget Sound Center, Seattle, WA.

 

1977: Publications

Dervin, B. (1977-04). A conceptual perspective on the information needs of urban residents. In W. E. Arnold & J. L. Buley (Eds.), Urban communication: Survival in the city (pp. 206-231). Cambridge, MA: Winthrop Publishers. (Abbreviated publication of 1976-04.)

Dervin, B. (1977-06). Communicating with, not to, the urban poor. Washington, DC: National Institute of Education ERIC/CUE Urban Diversity Series Number 50 (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 150 240.)

Dervin, B. (1977-03). [Review of the book Communication research and drug education]. Journal of Communication, 27 (4), 212-214.

 

Dervin, B. (1977-02). Useful theory for librarianship: Communication, not information. Drexel Library Quarterly, 13 (3), 16-32. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. EJ 194 473). (Reprinted in 1991-04.)

 

Zweizig, D., & Dervin, B. (1977-05). Public library use, users, uses: Advances in knowledge of the characteristics and needs of the adult clientele of American public libraries. In M. Voigt & M. H. Harris (Eds.), Advances in Librarianship (Vol. 7, pp. 231-255). New York: Academic Press. (Reprinted in 1982-07.)

 

 

1977: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1977-07, June). People's information: Designing information systems that communicate. Paper presented to the Public Library Association Idea Exchange, American Library Association meeting, Detroit, MI.

Dervin, B., Zweizig, D., Gray, V. A., Hall, E. P., Kwan, C., Lalley, K., Schnelle, R., & Jung, J. (1977-10). The development of strategies for dealing with the information needs of urban residents: Phase 3: Applications (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 148 389.)

 

Dervin, B., Zweizig, D., Hall, E. P., Kwan, C., & Lalley, K., (with Banister, M., Gabriel, M., Gray, V. A., Schnelle, R., & Yung, J.). (1977-08). The development of strategies for dealing with the information needs of urban residents: Phase 2: Practitioner study. Washington, DC: U.S. Office of Education. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 136 791.)

 

 

1976: Publications

Dervin, B. (1976-01). A critique of the application of systems approaches in three T & M papers presented at the College Park convention. T & M Newsletter (November), 11-16.

Dervin, B. (Guest Ed.). (1976-09). Information: An answer for every question? A solution for every problem? (Special section). Journal of Broadcasting, 20 (3), 323-324.

Dervin, B. (1976-02). Strategies for dealing with human information needs: Information or communication? Journal of Broadcasting, 20 (3), 324-333. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. EJ 146 971.)

Dervin, B. (1976-04). The everyday information needs of the average citizen: A taxonomy for analysis. In M. Kochen & J. Donohue (Eds.), Information for the community (pp. 19-38). Chicago: American Library Association. (Portions published as 1977-04). (Originally presented as 1973-01.)

Dervin, B., & Banister, M. (1976-03). Theory has many definitions in journalism education. Journalism Educator, 31 (3), 10-15; 44. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. EJ 160 322.)

 

Stamm, K., Dervin, B., & Laing, R. (1976-08). Communication research and environmental policy decisions: Seattle's solid waste planning. Journal of Environmental Education, 8 (2), 26-36. (Originally presented as 1974-01 & 1975-02.)

 

 

1976: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1976-05, October). Designing everyday coping information services: Data needs for communication planning. Paper presented at the East-West Communication Institute, Honolulu, HI.

Dervin, B. (1976-07, December). Information for sense-making. Paper presented to the Symposium of the Committee on Public Information in the Prevention of Occupational Cancer, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC.

 

Dervin, B., & Harlock, S. (1976-10, May). Health communication research: The state of the art. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Health Communication Division, Portland, OR.

 

Dervin, B., Zweizig, D., Banister, M., Gabriel, M., Hall, E. P., & Kwan, C., (with Bowes, J, & Stamm, K.). (1976-06). The development of strategies for dealing with the information needs of urban residents: Phase 1: Citizen study. Washington, DC: U.S. Office of Education. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 125 640.)

 

 

1975: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1975-01, May). Strategies for dealing with the information needs of urban residents: Information or communication? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Chicago.

Dervin, B., & Fujiki, R. (1975-03, May). Co-orientation at various levels of information complexity within an Asian community. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Intercultural Communication Division, Chicago.

Stamm, K. R., Dervin, B., & Laing, R. (1975-02, December). Applying communication research to environmental policy decisions: Seattle's solid waste planning. Paper presented to the Symposium of the Committee on Public Information in the Prevention of Occupational Cancer, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. (Originally presented as 1974-01; published as 1976-08).

Zweizig, D., & Dervin, B. (1975-04). Public library change: The use of a multiplier strategy for the development of public librarians. Paper presented at the Conference on Professional Assessment and Development: Theory and Practice, University of Washington Continuing Education Center, Seattle, WA.

 

 

1974: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1974-02, May). The development of a situation transferable content analytic scheme for cataloguing the information needs of urban residents. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Information Systems Division, New Orleans, LA.

 

Dervin, B., Stamm, K. R., & White, K. (with Elway, S., Fujiki, R., Laing, R., & Manji, P.). (1974-01). Survey of public opinion, behavior, and knowledge of solid waste management in King county, Washington: Reports 1 and 2. Report to the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle and the River Basin Coordinating Committee Solid Waste Management Study. (Presented as 1975-02; published as 1976-08.)

 

 

1973: Publications

Dervin, B. (1973-02). The U.S. low-income urban village: An information vacuum? In W. Griffith (Ed.), Literacy discussion (Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 237-250). Tehran, Iran: UNESCO and Government of Iran, International Institute of Adult Literacy Methods. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. EJ 084 030). (Originally presented as 1973-03.)

 

 

1973: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1973-03, May). A case of international development: The U.S. low-income village. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Intercultural Division, Montreal, Canada. (Published as 1973-02).

Dervin, B. (1973-06, February). A survey of the Chicano residents of King county. Report to Active Mexicanos, Seattle, WA.

Dervin, B. (1973-04). A working paper: The information needs of urban residents: A conceptual context. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism, Theory and Methodology Division, Fort Collins, CO.

 

Dervin, B. (1973-05, November). Establishing neighborhood information centers: The realities of the communication environment. Paper presented at the Allerton Institute, University of Chicago-Urbana, Urbana, IL.

 

Dervin, B. (1973-01). The information needs of urban residents: A conceptual context. In E. Warner, A. Murray & V. Palmer (Eds.), The information needs of urban residents. (Report by the Regional Planning Council of Baltimore and Westat Research, Inc. of Rockville, Maryland, under Contract # OEC-0-71-4555 to the U.S. Office of Education, Washington, DC, April). (Revised version published as 1976-04).

 

 

1972: Publications

Dervin, B., & Greenberg, B. S. (1972-01). The communication environment of the urban poor. In G. Kline & P. Tichenor (Eds.), Current perspectives in mass communication research: Vol. 1 (pp. 195-233). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Annual Reviews of Communication Research. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 075 553.)

 

1972: Reprints of prior publications

Greenberg, B. S., & Dervin, B. (1972-02). Mass communication among the urban poor. In A. Wells, Mass media and society (pp. 265-272). Palo Alto, CA: National Press Books. (Reprint of 1970-02).

1972: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1972-03, May). A case study in chaos: An empirical description of student response to an unstructured communication-management class. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Atlanta, GA.

 

 

1971: Publications

Dervin, B. (1971-01). Communication behaviors as related to information control behaviors of Black, low-income adults. Doctoral dissertation, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

 

1970: Publications

Dervin, B. (1970-01). Library service to the disadvantaged: Some leads from social science research. Florida Libraries, 21 (4), 150-153.

Dervin, B., Bowes, J., & Greenberg, B. S. (1970-05). Annotated bibliography on communication and the poor. In B. S. Greenberg &B. Dervin, Use of the mass media by the urban poor (pp. 127-252). New York: Praeger.

 

Dervin, B., Greenberg, B. S., Bowes, J., & Curley, M. (1970-04). Summary of related research findings. In B. S. Greenberg & B. Dervin, Use of the mass media by the urban poor (pp. 89-126). New York: Praeger.

 

Greenberg, B. S., & Dervin, B. (1970-02). Mass communication among the urban poor. Public Opinion Quarterly, 34 (2), 224-235. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. EJ 022 521). (Reprinted in 1972-02.)

Greenberg, B. S., & Dervin, B. (1970-03). The role of the mass media for urban poor adults. In B. S. Greenberg & B. Dervin, Use of the mass media by the urban poor (pp. 3-3). New York: Praeger.

Greenberg, B. S., & Dervin, B. (1970-06). Use of the mass media by the urban poor: Findings of three research projects, with an annotated bibliography. New York: Praeger. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 052 591).

 

 

1970: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1970-07, November). The research-action-teaching effort at Syracuse University's School of Library Science. Speech delivered at the Allerton Institute on Libraries and Neighborhood Information Centers, Allerton Park and Conference Center, University of Illinois, Monticello, IL.

 

 

1968: Publications

Greenberg, B. S., Dervin, B., & Dominick, J. (1968-01). Do people watch television or programs: A measurement problem. Journal of Broadcasting, 12 (4), 367-376.

 

 

1968: Papers & Reports

Dervin, B. (1968-02). A critical review of research relating attitudes and attitude change to prior information, information gain and retention. Paper presented at the meeting of the Speech Association of America, Chicago.

 

 

1965: Publications

Dervin, B. (1965-01). The spender syndrome: Case studies of 68 families and their consumer problems. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Extension.