This volume provides an overview of the methodological issues and challenges inherent in the study of small groups from the perspective of seasoned researchers in communication, psychology and other fields in the behavioral and social sciences. It summarizes the current state of group methods in a format that is readable, insightful, and useful for both new and experienced group researchers. This collection of essays will inspire new and established researchers alike to look beyond their current methodological approaches, covering both traditional and new methods for studying groups and exploring the full range of groups in face-to-face and online settings.
The volume will be an important addition to graduate study on group research and will be a valuable reference for established group researchers, consultants and other practitioners. The essays in this volume when considered as a whole will be a contemporary interdisciplinary integration on group research methods.
| Group Research Methods: An Introduction |
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1 Designing for Drift: Planning Ethnographic Qualitative Research on Groups |
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2 Experimental Designs for Research on Small Groups: The Five Ps |
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3 Running Laboratory Experiments with Groups |
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4 Group Research Using High-fidelity Experimental Simulations |
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5 Computer Simulation Methods for Groups: From Formula Translation to Agent-based Modeling |
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6 Studying Global Work Groups in the Field |
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7 Crossing Party Lines: Incorporating Measures of Individual Differences in Groups |
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8 Studying Team Cognition: The Good, the Bad, and the Practical |
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9 Investigating Emotion and Affect in Groups |
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10 Using Virtual Game Environments to Study Group Behavior |
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11 Interviewing Members of Online Communities: A Practical Guide to Recruiting Participants |
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12 Bona Fide Groups: A Discourse Perspective |
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13 Understanding Group Dynamics Using Narrative Methods |
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14 Groups and Teams in Organizations: Studying the Multilevel Dynamics of Emergence |
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15 Understanding Groups from a Network Perspective |
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17 Coding Group Interaction |
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18 The Analysis of Group Interaction Processes |
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19 Measuring Team Dynamics in the Wild |
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20 Interventions in Groups: Methods for Facilitating Team Development |
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| Author Index |
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Andrea B. Hollingshead is Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. She has joint appointments in the Marshall School of Business and the Department of Psychology and is co-director of the Annenberg Program for Online Communities Research Initiative. Professor Hollingshead's research concerns the factors and processes that lead to effective and ineffective knowledge sharing in work groups. Her research also addresses how groups collaborate and create community using communication technologies.
Marshall Scott Poole is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Director of the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His current research foci include team behavior in massive multiplayer online games, the use of information technology in emergency response, and integrating theories of small groups and social networks in the explanation of large, dynamically changing groups and intergroup networks.
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