1. Chapter 1 How to Read and Critique Research UNDERSTANDING NUMBERS DEDUCTIVE AND INDUCTIVE PROC... more 1. Chapter 1 How to Read and Critique Research UNDERSTANDING NUMBERS DEDUCTIVE AND INDUCTIVE PROCESSES INTRINSIC VALUE THE POLITICAL CONTEXT OF RESEARCH RESEARCH ILLUSTRATIONS NUMERICAL LITERACY KEY TERMS REFLECTION QUESTIONS EXERCISE 2. Chapter 2 Why Do Research? Questioning the Research Context WHO PRODUCED THE RESEARCH? RESEARCHERS' HOME INSTITUTIONS FUNDING INSTITUTIONS PERMISSION GRANTING INSTITUTIONS WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH? WHAT ARE THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS? HOW IS THE RESEARCH JUSTIFIED? WHY THE RESEARCH CONTEXT MATTERS KEY TERMS REVIEW QUESTIONS REFLECTION QUESTIONS EXERCISE 3. Chapter 3 What Can We Know? Questioning the Research Design WHAT IS THE RESEARCH DESIGN? WHAT ARE THE INTERNAL VALIDITY CONCERNS? EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL CROSS-SECTIONAL DESIGN QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL LONGITUDINAL DESIGN CASE STUDY DESIGN QUESTIONING RESEARCH DESIGNS WHY RESEARCH DESIGN MATTERS KEY TERMS REVIEW QUESTIONS REFLECTION QUESTIONS EXERCISE 4. Chapter 4 Who is the Research About? Questioning Selection Strategies WHO OR WHAT IS THE SUBJECT OF THE RESEARCH? VULNERABLE POPULATIONS HOW ARE SUBJECTS SELECTED? PROBABILITY SAMPLING NON-PROBABILITY SAMPLING WHAT ARE THE LIMITATIONS OF THE SAMPLE? WHY SELECTION STRATEGIES MATTER KEY TERMS REVIEW QUESTIONS REFLECTION QUESTIONS EXERCISE 5. Chapter 5 What is the Research About? Questioning Key Terms HOW ARE KEY CONCEPTS DEFINED? HOW ARE VARIABLES OPERATIONALIZED FROM CONCEPTS? WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT KEY VARIABLES? MEASUREMENT ASSESSMENT WHY DEFINITIONS MATTER KEY TERMS REVIEW QUESTIONS REFLECTION QUESTIONS EXERCISE 6. Chapter 6 How was the Research Conducted? Questioning Research Implementation HOW ARE DATA GATHERED? HOW DO RESEARCHERS GAIN ACCESS TO DATA? DECEPTION VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION INFORMED CONSENT PUBLIC SPACE HOW DO RESEARCHERS DOCUMENT THEIR OBSERVATIONS? RECORDING OBSERVATIONS CONFIDENTIALITY AND ANONYMITY WHY RESEARCH IMPLEMENTATION MATTERS KEY TERMS REVIEW QUESTIONS REFLECTION QUESTIONS EXERCISE 7. Chapter 7 What Do We Know? Questioning Analysis & Interpretation WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT PATTERNS ACROSS VARIABLES? SIGNIFICANCE STRENGTH CAUSALITY WHAT DO WE STILL NEED TO KNOW? WHY ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION MATTER KEY TERMS REVIEW QUESTIONS REFLECTION QUESTIONS EXERCISE 8. Chapter 8 Questioning Research GUIDELINE OF QUESTIONS QUESTIONING THE RESEARCH CONTEXT QUESTIONING THE RESEARCH DESIGN QUESTIONING THE SELECTION STRATEGY QUESTIONING KEY TERMS QUESTIONING THE RESEARCH IMPLEMENTATION QUESTIONING ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATION WHY THE POLITICAL CONTEXT MATTERS
... In the final chapter, Karin Wilkins summarizes critical debates in the field that move toward... more ... In the final chapter, Karin Wilkins summarizes critical debates in the field that move toward reconceptualizing develop-ment communication within a context that articulates the role of power in the pro-duction of knowledge about people, social problems, and potential solutions. ...
The Journal of International Communication, Apr 28, 2021
ABSTRACT Development institutions communicate about development through mediated communication st... more ABSTRACT Development institutions communicate about development through mediated communication strategies. The advent of image-intensive digital spaces such as Instagram has facilitated communication for these institutions, making ‘development’ more accessible to the public. However, the representation of development in these institutional digital spaces remains largely unexamined. By conceptualising Instagram as an emerging context for the ‘public face of development’, we conducted a content analysis of 300 Instagram posts by three major bilateral development agencies (USAID, DFID, and SIDA) in order to address critical questions concerning how they communicated about development agendas, subjects, and processes of development to the public. The study reveals that these representations of development in digital space largely adhere to feminised and infantilised visions of ‘ideal victimhood’ when projecting ‘what’ and ‘who’ should receive attention. These representations thus served to justify the Western-centred, neoliberal modes of development. Overall, these agencies’ communicative patterns regarding ‘how development can be achieved’ articulate perspectives on development to ‘look-good’ at home and ‘do-good’ abroad that make social change seem readily achievable.
Page 1. Home/Land/Security Page 2. Page 3. Home/Land/Security What We Learn about Arab Communitie... more Page 1. Home/Land/Security Page 2. Page 3. Home/Land/Security What We Learn about Arab Communities from Action-Adventure Films Karin Gwinn Wilkins LEXINGTON BOOKS A division of ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. ...
Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change, 2020
In this chapter, I propose a conceptual approach to accountability that advocates for social just... more In this chapter, I propose a conceptual approach to accountability that advocates for social justice. Accountability refers to the importance of informed and engaged decision-making, building on critical approaches to research and on dialogic approaches to listening and learning, understanding the value of voice. Advocacy in this framework references a comprehensive and critical approach to inquiry. Advocating with accountability for social justice is grounded in perspectives of development that privilege social justice, of accountability that focuses on critical inquiry, and of advocacy that highlights the politics of intervention. Given this conceptual framework, I propose building a Social Justice Institute for Critical Engagement (Just-ICE) as a way to engage learning and addressing significant social problems.
3.1. Research Questions 3.2. Research Design 3.3. Sample 3.4. Dimensions 4. Results 4.1. Sustaina... more 3.1. Research Questions 3.2. Research Design 3.3. Sample 3.4. Dimensions 4. Results 4.1. Sustainable Development as International News 4.2. Responsibility for Development Problems 4.3. Responsibility for Development Solutions 4.4. Voices Articulating News ...
Development is meant to alleviate problems in the interests of the public good, yet the growing d... more Development is meant to alleviate problems in the interests of the public good, yet the growing dominance of private donors problematizes this conceptualization. Working through a political-economic analysis of development, we see global communications as an industry that channels wealth from citizens into the hands of few corporate moguls, who then have the resources to assert their agendas in a global development context. We begin by conceptualizing development and social change within communication studies, paying attention to the privatization of aid within global capitalism. Next, we contextualize our case study, describing the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and ONE, promoted by Bono, as the funding and management settings of the Living Proof campaign. We analyze the initiative’s construction of development problems, its articulation of how communication is expected to work toward social change, and its conceptualizations of success. The dominant theme of Living Proof progra...
1. Chapter 1 How to Read and Critique Research UNDERSTANDING NUMBERS DEDUCTIVE AND INDUCTIVE PROC... more 1. Chapter 1 How to Read and Critique Research UNDERSTANDING NUMBERS DEDUCTIVE AND INDUCTIVE PROCESSES INTRINSIC VALUE THE POLITICAL CONTEXT OF RESEARCH RESEARCH ILLUSTRATIONS NUMERICAL LITERACY KEY TERMS REFLECTION QUESTIONS EXERCISE 2. Chapter 2 Why Do Research? Questioning the Research Context WHO PRODUCED THE RESEARCH? RESEARCHERS' HOME INSTITUTIONS FUNDING INSTITUTIONS PERMISSION GRANTING INSTITUTIONS WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH? WHAT ARE THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS? HOW IS THE RESEARCH JUSTIFIED? WHY THE RESEARCH CONTEXT MATTERS KEY TERMS REVIEW QUESTIONS REFLECTION QUESTIONS EXERCISE 3. Chapter 3 What Can We Know? Questioning the Research Design WHAT IS THE RESEARCH DESIGN? WHAT ARE THE INTERNAL VALIDITY CONCERNS? EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL CROSS-SECTIONAL DESIGN QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL LONGITUDINAL DESIGN CASE STUDY DESIGN QUESTIONING RESEARCH DESIGNS WHY RESEARCH DESIGN MATTERS KEY TERMS REVIEW QUESTIONS REFLECTION QUESTIONS EXERCISE 4. Chapter 4 Who is the Research About? Questioning Selection Strategies WHO OR WHAT IS THE SUBJECT OF THE RESEARCH? VULNERABLE POPULATIONS HOW ARE SUBJECTS SELECTED? PROBABILITY SAMPLING NON-PROBABILITY SAMPLING WHAT ARE THE LIMITATIONS OF THE SAMPLE? WHY SELECTION STRATEGIES MATTER KEY TERMS REVIEW QUESTIONS REFLECTION QUESTIONS EXERCISE 5. Chapter 5 What is the Research About? Questioning Key Terms HOW ARE KEY CONCEPTS DEFINED? HOW ARE VARIABLES OPERATIONALIZED FROM CONCEPTS? WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT KEY VARIABLES? MEASUREMENT ASSESSMENT WHY DEFINITIONS MATTER KEY TERMS REVIEW QUESTIONS REFLECTION QUESTIONS EXERCISE 6. Chapter 6 How was the Research Conducted? Questioning Research Implementation HOW ARE DATA GATHERED? HOW DO RESEARCHERS GAIN ACCESS TO DATA? DECEPTION VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION INFORMED CONSENT PUBLIC SPACE HOW DO RESEARCHERS DOCUMENT THEIR OBSERVATIONS? RECORDING OBSERVATIONS CONFIDENTIALITY AND ANONYMITY WHY RESEARCH IMPLEMENTATION MATTERS KEY TERMS REVIEW QUESTIONS REFLECTION QUESTIONS EXERCISE 7. Chapter 7 What Do We Know? Questioning Analysis & Interpretation WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT PATTERNS ACROSS VARIABLES? SIGNIFICANCE STRENGTH CAUSALITY WHAT DO WE STILL NEED TO KNOW? WHY ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION MATTER KEY TERMS REVIEW QUESTIONS REFLECTION QUESTIONS EXERCISE 8. Chapter 8 Questioning Research GUIDELINE OF QUESTIONS QUESTIONING THE RESEARCH CONTEXT QUESTIONING THE RESEARCH DESIGN QUESTIONING THE SELECTION STRATEGY QUESTIONING KEY TERMS QUESTIONING THE RESEARCH IMPLEMENTATION QUESTIONING ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATION WHY THE POLITICAL CONTEXT MATTERS
... In the final chapter, Karin Wilkins summarizes critical debates in the field that move toward... more ... In the final chapter, Karin Wilkins summarizes critical debates in the field that move toward reconceptualizing develop-ment communication within a context that articulates the role of power in the pro-duction of knowledge about people, social problems, and potential solutions. ...
The Journal of International Communication, Apr 28, 2021
ABSTRACT Development institutions communicate about development through mediated communication st... more ABSTRACT Development institutions communicate about development through mediated communication strategies. The advent of image-intensive digital spaces such as Instagram has facilitated communication for these institutions, making ‘development’ more accessible to the public. However, the representation of development in these institutional digital spaces remains largely unexamined. By conceptualising Instagram as an emerging context for the ‘public face of development’, we conducted a content analysis of 300 Instagram posts by three major bilateral development agencies (USAID, DFID, and SIDA) in order to address critical questions concerning how they communicated about development agendas, subjects, and processes of development to the public. The study reveals that these representations of development in digital space largely adhere to feminised and infantilised visions of ‘ideal victimhood’ when projecting ‘what’ and ‘who’ should receive attention. These representations thus served to justify the Western-centred, neoliberal modes of development. Overall, these agencies’ communicative patterns regarding ‘how development can be achieved’ articulate perspectives on development to ‘look-good’ at home and ‘do-good’ abroad that make social change seem readily achievable.
Page 1. Home/Land/Security Page 2. Page 3. Home/Land/Security What We Learn about Arab Communitie... more Page 1. Home/Land/Security Page 2. Page 3. Home/Land/Security What We Learn about Arab Communities from Action-Adventure Films Karin Gwinn Wilkins LEXINGTON BOOKS A division of ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. ...
Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change, 2020
In this chapter, I propose a conceptual approach to accountability that advocates for social just... more In this chapter, I propose a conceptual approach to accountability that advocates for social justice. Accountability refers to the importance of informed and engaged decision-making, building on critical approaches to research and on dialogic approaches to listening and learning, understanding the value of voice. Advocacy in this framework references a comprehensive and critical approach to inquiry. Advocating with accountability for social justice is grounded in perspectives of development that privilege social justice, of accountability that focuses on critical inquiry, and of advocacy that highlights the politics of intervention. Given this conceptual framework, I propose building a Social Justice Institute for Critical Engagement (Just-ICE) as a way to engage learning and addressing significant social problems.
3.1. Research Questions 3.2. Research Design 3.3. Sample 3.4. Dimensions 4. Results 4.1. Sustaina... more 3.1. Research Questions 3.2. Research Design 3.3. Sample 3.4. Dimensions 4. Results 4.1. Sustainable Development as International News 4.2. Responsibility for Development Problems 4.3. Responsibility for Development Solutions 4.4. Voices Articulating News ...
Development is meant to alleviate problems in the interests of the public good, yet the growing d... more Development is meant to alleviate problems in the interests of the public good, yet the growing dominance of private donors problematizes this conceptualization. Working through a political-economic analysis of development, we see global communications as an industry that channels wealth from citizens into the hands of few corporate moguls, who then have the resources to assert their agendas in a global development context. We begin by conceptualizing development and social change within communication studies, paying attention to the privatization of aid within global capitalism. Next, we contextualize our case study, describing the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and ONE, promoted by Bono, as the funding and management settings of the Living Proof campaign. We analyze the initiative’s construction of development problems, its articulation of how communication is expected to work toward social change, and its conceptualizations of success. The dominant theme of Living Proof progra...
Mobilizing communication globally: for what and for whom? This question motivated this special is... more Mobilizing communication globally: for what and for whom? This question motivated this special issue of Nordicom Review (with open access via their website), grounded in a concern over the future of communication for development as a field of theorization and research tightly linked to practice the world over. Against this background, for this special issue we invited critical contributions that would address the relationship between communication, development and social change beyond so-called “success stories”. We called for papers attentive to the potential of communication and media interventions to provoke unexpected outcomes, at times harmful or unfair, and alert to the fact that “caution must be exercised in the adoption of social diagnoses based on specific, very narrowly conceived empirical constraints, and subsequent prescriptions” (Cabrera 2010: 156). In the context of increasing inequalities in both developing and developed countries (Wilkinson and Pickett 2010), for whom and for what to mobilize communication remains an open question. We propose that this question should be at the heart of future efforts to theorise and research in what ways and under which conditions communication might contribute to equitable development and social justice.
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