UNDERSTANDING COMMUNICATION RESEARCH METHODS

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Chapter 1

We need to communicate with one another. Sometimes we do not—when this happens we have a failure to communicate. The following is a clip that has been shown to numerous classes about this “failure to communicate”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fuDDqU6n4o

Chapter 2

The following is a link to a documentary about the Stanford Prison Experiment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_LKzEqlPto

Chapter 3

Empiricism explained by Stephen Fry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnPFb0Nyme8

Chapter 4

Hermeneutics explained in a fun cartoon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH8tmMaPiNc

The Muppets, also, in a silly video explain phenomenology, or, well, they kind of do: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVGAxMo-kiw

Chapter 5

A good overview of research paradigm terminology with a focus on the critical perspective:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xvpxBVCo0c

A lengthier discussion on the critical paradigm in the 21st century:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjfISwCLFrU

Chapter 6

A video explaining peer review: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twogpmM-SfY

Chapter 7

A video from the New York Times about the central limit theoremthat uses rabbits as the examples: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvoxEYmQHNM

Chapter 8

A short video looking at reliability versus validity: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epWvQvTtVUA

Chapter 9

A video about how to develop a research question: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga7w-czB7lo

Also, here is a video on what a null hypothesis is: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDmCFVQvv2A

Chapter 10:

Here are six links to the work of Margaret Mead and her work in Samoa. This is a classic example of ethnographic work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOa3ftAKnzo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9HNzhV0CjI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFdaW1kZOaA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDLyQb5Pd3w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQnfbAEg_uQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrdTDbUIeKk

Chapter 11

Interview with Clifford Geertz, parts 1 and 2: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dQDx3axrDs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6FftV-XGV0

Chapter 12

Funny focus-group videos: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwgQ0BMfqj4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcZZZ46D6vM

Chapter 13

The following video shows the qualities of a good qualitative researcher: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVkrVaY_KjA

Chapter 14

Watch one of the following videos and do a qualitative or quantitative analysis of gender roles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-57zKcmrT6M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nIXUjzyMe0

Chapter 15

Video that explains survey research: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1PnYFaFlSY

Chapter 16

Straightforward video on mean, median, and mode: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMaIREesP7Y

Video about skewness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be6H0gcCYD0

Chapter 17

This video is a short clip that helps show students which test they could use out of the many tests available to them: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rulIUAN0U3w

Chapter 18

Based on what you have read, is this a “true” experiment: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX_oy9614HQ

Chapter 19

This is a video about rhetoric and rhetoric appeals: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ODwmSYb3Tw

This is a video about pathos, ethos, and logos: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAsxyffBqm0

Chapter 20

A clip from Chomsky critiquing postmodernism, feminism, and Marxism: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjNJX64cBOE

Derrida defining deconstructionism: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgwOjjoYtco