Welcome

to the

Sense-Making Methodology (SMM)
Website

Brenda Dervin, Ph.D.

dervin.1@osu.edu
bldervin@gmail.com
doctordervin@gmail.com

 

IMPORTANT NOTICE:  Dr. Dervin is now retired and holds these titles at different institutions:
*Professor Emeritus, School of Communication, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
*Adjunct Full Professor, Department of Communication Studies, College of Social & Behavioral Studies and Social Work, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington
*Faculty Affiliate, Department of Communication, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho

This web site is under reconstruction and will be updated on the road to its revision about once a week.  In the meantime, visitors may contact Dr. Dervin directly with requests for reprints or documents that they hope will be useful to them:  contact dervin.1@osu.edu

Web site last updated March 28, 2012

CONTENTS OF THIS WEBSITE:
This website incorporates the following.  Completed or partially completed documents are shown as actively linked.
*Getting access to documents: instructions
 coming

*Brief introduction to Dervin’s Semse-Making Methodology (natrrative description_
http://communication.sbs.ohio-state.edu/sense-making/introSMM.html

*Dervin’s curriculum vitae – complete, and brief narrative (document links included)
http://communication.sbs.ohio-state.edu/sense-making/cover_dervinCVs.html

*Encyclopedia articles relevant to the study of sense-making and sense-unmaking (bibliography listing only)
http://communication.sbs.ohio-state.edu/sense-making/cover_encyclopedias.html

*Articles, papers authored by others focusing on SMM and/or Dervin (bibliography listing only)
http://communication.sbs.ohio-state.edu/sense-making/cover_byOTHERSreSMM_BD.html

*Articles, chapters, papers focusing on or using SMM authored by Dervin as solo, senior, or junior
coming soon

*Articles, chapters, papers by others applying SMM (bibliography listing only)
coming soon

*Papers in the three special issues of ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION focusing on applications of Dervin’s SMM to a variety of communicative contexts (bibliography with abstracts listing)
http://communication.sbs.ohio-state.edu/sense-making/cover_EJOC.html

*Reports from grants and contracts that have applied SMM
coming soon

*Dissertations focusing on and/or using SMM in some way
coming soon

*Interviewing approaches – comprehensive paper and selected examples (paper now available)
http://communication.sbs.ohio-state.edu/sense-making/cover_interviewing.html