Practice Approaches and the Ethnography of Communication: Investigating for the Possibility of a Mutually Beneficial Relationship
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2003
Keywords
ethnography of communication, practice approaches, ethnography, pluralist research, and qualitative methods
Abstract
In this essay, I explore the areas of accord and discord between two efficacious modes of research: practice approaches and the Ethnography of Communication (EOC). As an interpersonal and intercultural scholar, I carefully analyze these approaches in order to find innovative ways to describe the diversity that I see in modern social interaction. Working against paradigms that suggest using either one approach or another, I engage this project hoping (expecting?) to find and/both alternatives for communication study. I argue that, in spite of their differences, practice and EOC traditions co-exist in a mutually beneficial relationship for the study of communication in 2002.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
The Qualitative Report, v. 8, issue 4, p. 640-654
Scholar Commons Citation
Berry, Keith, "Practice Approaches and the Ethnography of Communication: Investigating for the Possibility of a Mutually Beneficial Relationship" (2003). Communication Faculty Publications. 310.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/spe_facpub/310
