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On May 23, 2003 Professor Dervin chaired a Sense-Making Workshop entitled: A methodological riddle: Sense-Making Methodology as exemplar and foil for examining the question “What’s so hard about bridging the gap between metatheory and method?” and considering answers in multiple contexts—Research, theory, policy, design, and praxis at the meeting of the International Communication Association in San Diego, California. The workshop was designed as a working session in which participants—both those with prepared papers and others who joined the group as participant-observers—examined the methodological riddle. The riddle was this: The bridge between metatheory and method receives scant attention. In quantitative studies, the bridge is most often collapsed into method, usually statistics; while in qualitative studies, the bridge is most often collapsed into philosophical argument and critique.
The workshop focused on addressing this riddle in a series of small working groups followed by full panel discussions using Dervin’s Sense-Making Methodology as the prime methodological exemplar and foil. This section of the Web site presents Dervin’s methodological primer as well as the contents of the prepared papers.
WORKSHOP LINKS:
Dervin, B. (2003, May). A Sense-Making Methodology primer: What is methodological about Sense-Making. Introductory essay presented at a non-divisional workshop held at the meeting of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA.
2003 ICA Workshop Presentations and Author Précis. A listing of the authors and the papers they presented at the workshop with links to each précis.