This book offers students, academics and professional researchers a broad survey of ways to popularize research. Although each chapter discusses unique experiences, each follows a standard format, touching upon common elements: outlining what the research popularized was about, why the decision to popularize it was made, why certain media and genres were employed, what lessons researchers learned in the process, and how audiences responded. Throughout the book, readers are directed to the book’s accompanying website, an excellent resource for highlighting how examples in the book come to life, what they sound like, and what they look like. Written in a clear and accessible style, this volume avoids specialized terminology and instead employs basic language that any student, academic, and professional across the social sciences and humanities will understand.
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«Essential advice for social scientists fed up with the navel-gazing and esoterica that typifies representation in so much academic research, complete with hard-copy and internet integrations and a proper caution for junior faculty about being too bold in the crusty old corridors of academe a timely and liberating step toward making social science research available for everyone through innovative links to modern media.» (Ivan Brady, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, State University of New York; author of fiction, poetry, and dozens of scholarly articles and books, including The Time at Darwins Reef: Poetic Explorations in Anthropology and History)
Contents: Phillip Vannini: Introduction: Popularizing Research Kip
Jones: Short Film as Performative Social Science: The Story behind Princess
Margaret Anne Harris/Nyadol Nyuon: «People Get Tired»: African Australian
Cross-Cultural Dialogue and Ethnocinema Carly Gieseler: Sturgis 2.0:
Crafting a Filmic-Web Dialogue Frank Sligo/Elspeth Tilley: Cartoons as
Praxis: Negotiating Different Needs in Adult Literacy Research Reporting
Jean J. Schensul/Colleen Coleman/Sarah Diamond/Raul Pino/Alessander Rey
Bermudez/Orlando Velazco/Regina Blake/Noelle Bessette: Rollin and Dustin:
The Use of Graphic Images for the Dissemination of Study Results to
Participant Communities Gregory P. Spira: Focusing on Community:
Photovoice, Local Action and Global Public Engagement Brigid
McAuliffe/Bryce Merrill: Mixed-Media Storytelling Installation: Embody
Guven Peter Witteveen: Producing Multimedia Exhibits for Multiple Audiences
at the Hokkaido University Museum Vivienne Brunsden/Joe Robinson/Jeffrey
Goatcher/Rowena Hill: Using Multimedia Artworks to Disseminate Psychological
Research on Attacks on Firefighters Lydia Nakashima Degarrod: Geographies
of the Imagination: Engaging Audiences and Participants in Collaborative
Interdisciplinary Gallery Installations Kevin Howley: Radio: Engaging
Communities through Grassroots Media Hinda Mandell/Carol M. Liebler: Music
of the Streets: Bringing Local Rappers to the Ivory Tower Mark Neumann:
Audio Documentary: Hearing Places and the Representation of Sonic Culture
John Llewellyn: The Relevance of Relevance: Why and How I Write Op-eds
Aliaa Dawoud: A Short Story about Female Characters in Egyptian Soap Operas
Joseph P. Zompetti: Persuasive Prestidigitation: Exploring the Rhetorical
Power of Magical Performance in a Popular Magazine Article Daniel Doherty:
Narrating Executive Development: Using «Writing as Inquiry» to Enrich the
Coaching Dialogue Ruth Garbutt: Its What You Do with It That Counts:
Disseminating Research about Sex and Relationships Using Reports and Leaflets
for People with Learning Disabilities Phillip Vannini: Public Ethnography
and Multimodality: Research from the Book to the Web Shannon Daub:
Mobilizing Research Publications to (Re)Frame Neoliberal Welfare Reform Ann
Dale/Jason Luckerhoff/François Guillemette: e-Dialogues: Real-Time Online
Conversations Brandy King/Michael Rich: Using Social Media to Empower
Parents in the Digital Age: Ask the Mediatrician Mike Evans/Jon Corbett:
New Media, Participatory Methodologies, and the Popularization of Mètis
History Jessica Lester/Rachael Gabriel: A Performance of Special Education
Meetings: Theatre of the Absurd David Jan Jurasek: Learn Dis!: A Community
does Research on Itself through Playback Theatre John Guiney Yallop/Sean
Wiebe: Moving Poetic Inquiry beyond the Academy: How Two Poets Popularize
Their Research Kimberly Dark: Popularizing Research as a Career: Personal,
Powerful, Political Mark David Ryan: Tips for Generating a Media Release
and Media Coverage: How the Media Ate Up My Research on Aussie Horror Movies
Mara Einstein: Publishing and Publicity: The Path to Popular Audiences
Philip A. Saunders: Reaching Mainstream Audiences: Media Tips for Academics
and the Challenge of Storytelling Christopher J. Schneider: Interacting
with News Media Journalists: Reflections of a Sociologist.
Phillip Vannini is Professor in the School of Communication & Culture at Royal Roads University and Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Public Ethnography. He is author/editor of eight books, including Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society (edited with J. Patrick Williams, 2009), The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities: Routes Less Travelled (2009), Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life: Ethnographic Approaches (Peter Lang, 2009), and The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture: A Sociology of the Senses (authored with Dennis Waskul and Simon Gottschalk, 2011).
