Web Resources

Web Links

  1. Writing on History According to this website, "historiography" is the history of history. The site provides insights into the writing of history and offers a link to a tutorial on how to write history. There are also links to issues such as plagiarism and critical reading.
  2. What is Ethnography?  This website provides a brief treatment of ethnography and the non-quantitative nature of the method. The site offers information about the nature of participant observation. Also in the discussion is the relationship between the researcher and the participant.
  3. Hegemony  - Michael Lewis Goldberg,Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences/American Studies concentration, University of Washington, Bothell This website gives a brief treatment of Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and other viewpoints on the issue. 

Activities

  1. Family Communication Visit the following website, read the content, and determine how you can tie this information together with what you have read in Chapter 2, such as the areas that family communication scholars study.
  2. Political Communication  This website provides a good deal of information about political communication. Visit the site and click on some of the links and make notes about what you learn that you did not already know about the area of political communication.
  3. Teacher Immediacy Visit this website, which will take you to an article in the Texas Speech Communication Journal online edition. Whether you are taking your communication course  face-to-face or online, see how the content of the article is applicable to your experience with taking the class.