CMN 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Communication Studies, Research, Informed Consent

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3102
• Professor: Elizabeth Dubois

Document Summary

Cmn3102 - introduction to communication research - 17/01/20. Research is the method that allows humans to determine facts about the world. Social science studies how humans live and interact. Fields of social science: anthropology, communication, cultural studies, economics, education, geography, history, linguistics, political sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, etc. Early scientists didn"t distinguish physical science from social science and communication studies only started to really take form during wwii. Today, there"s a vast array of topics that are covered by communication research. Communication is defined as the process by which one person stimulates meaning in the mind of another person through verbal and nonverbal messages (mccroskey, 2006). Modern ethics relies on 2 concepts: means and ends. The means are what are used to obtain an end . Institutional review boards were created so that the rights of research participants are respected. They use multiple review processes to determine the ethicality of a research.