Discusses the nature of ethnographic work, particularly in relation to the study of deafness. The kinds of information presented in ethnographies is explored, as are ethnography's limitations. Problems of and strategies for doing ethnographic research and writing ethnographies about deaf communities are explored. (20 references) (JL)

Technology education will find acceptance only as it defines a research agenda and then carries it out vigorously. Three broad areas of research that will have to be included are (1) behavioral changes in students who have taken technology education courses, (2) the complex act of teaching, and (3) the environment in which technology education…

Presents strategies for success which enable young family science scholars to continue to develop as researchers and professionals. Claims academic isolation is serious hazard to professional development of family scientist. Discusses comentoring, research, and locating funding sources. (ABL)

Documents 20 years of second-language acquisition research, highlighting two subthemes involving the alternate broadening and narrowing of research perspectives and predicting that the next phase of research will unite the historically distinct research foci on learning and the learner. (209 references) (CB)

Collected and reviewed all available assessment instruments (n=29) used to study suicidal behaviors in adolescents and young adults. Found instruments varied substantially in purpose, format, informant, and theoretical orientation. Categorized 461 items from instruments according to behavior type and content categories. Most items assessed…

According to a literature review, many older adults are avid readers with varied purposes and goals. Declines in cognitive, intellectual, and perceptual abilities need not affect reading. Their reading patterns and practices do not differ from the general population. (SK)

Provides some direction for critical communication research into the next decade or two. Concentrates, as a critic of popular culture, on the interpretation of cultural texts. (SR)

Argues that, to make itself more central to studies in its own field, American communication should embrace its traditional, albeit now greatly expanded, subject matter (communication), while at the same time abandoning all institutional vestiges of its narrow and long outmoded approaches to the field. (SR)

Attributes the lack of disciplinary status accorded communication to the lack of ontological status granted the very idea of communication in modernity. Argues that the field should deny modernity's bifurcation by asserting that communication is foundational and attempt to forward a unique communication ontology. (SR)

Argues that communication research needs to move toward better integration of observations on the microlevel with systemic generalizations about macrolevel phenomena, and reorient research away from the media behavior and responses of individuals and toward the cumulative consequences of media behavior over time. (SR)

Claims that the field of communication is moving beyond theorizing that treats communication as a process, to what might be called "multiple-process theory." Examines views of message-processing modes and effects, enlarges the scope of inquiry by considering a multiplicity of levels of analysis, and discusses a philosophical orientation compatible…

Discusses particular tensions within the area of interpersonal communication theory and research surrounding the study of social and personal relationships. Argues that important issues have been ignored as scholars pursue a spurious conflict between communication science and communication hermeneutics. (SR)

Uses three quotations from Gregory Bateson to inform the author's comments on the discipline of communication. Argues that communication teachers and scholars must aim for a curriculum and a mode of study, research, and teaching that leads to means of recognizing, addressing, and responding to truly significant questions, rather than disciplinary,…

Discuses three developmental stages of the information society: the electrification of communication, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century; converging technologies and awareness of information, beginning in the late middle twentieth century; and, beginning in the 1990s, the harmonization of information systems with each other.…

Advocates that communication scholars explore more deeply the work of Emile Durkheim. Explores Durkheim and communication studies, and Durkheimian contributions to communication theory, viewing every corner of social life as communicatively founded. (SR)