A COM 265X Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Fax, Email, Prior Probability
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Message or arifact-oriented research focuses on examining and interpreing messages and related ideas, such as people"s underlying values. Focuses on inding, examining, and interpreing messages that were created at diferent ime periods to help ind out: communicaion during a certain ime policy, policies that afect how we communicate, content of various communicaion messages. Examine all relevant published materials about the research topic. All real research begins with library/documentary research. Draws conclusions and present new explanaions about past communicaion events or communicators. Use of primary documents, records, and arifacts. Historical studies can be: biographical, movement oriented, idea oriented, regional, insituional, case history, editorial in nature. Seeks to clarify and understand how law operates in society. Centers on issues like defamaion, privacy, and restraint of expression. Shed new light on the prior data, interpretaions, and conclusions. Looks at trends or themes in published literature.
