INTRODUCTION TO THE
2005 ICA SENSE-MAKING WORKSHOP

RESEARCH DESIGN WORKSHOP: 
METHODOLOGY FOR STUDYING COMMUNICATION DIALOGICALLY AS BRIDGE
BETWEEN DOMAINS, TERRAINS,  METHODS

Edited by:
Brenda Dervin
&
Mei Song
Ohio State University
dervin.1@osu.edu

In May of 2005, a fourth Sense-Making Workshop was held at the International Communication Association (ICA) annual meeting in New York City.  The workshop's central focus centered on research design, specifically what it means to implement a methodology (in this case Sense-Making Methodology) methodologically in research practice.  A secondary focus emphasized how the implementations of methodology may facilitate or impede inter-disciplinary and inter-discourse dialogue. 

An international call went out to people known to have used either some aspects Sense-Making Methodology or the entire methodological structure in their research work. Some participants were asked to provide exemplars; others were invited to provide brief literature reviews of research questions they hoped to address using Sense-Making Methodology.  These literature reviews were constructed as a basis for the workshop's working sessions on research design.

This page presents the call for participation and the précis participants prepared for the workshop.

WORKSHOP LINKS:
Dervin, B. (2005, May).  The methodological mandates of Sense-Making Methodology. Introductory essay presented at a non-divisional workshop, International Communication Association annual meeting, New York City.

2005 ICA Workshop Call for Participation:  The call for participation that appeared in the ICA conference program.

2005 ICA Workshop Presentations and Author Précis.  A listing of the authors and their presentation titles with links to each précis.