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Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] IJoC/SSRC Special Section on Engaged Research ― Just Published
Magari interessa a qualcuno di voi: una serie di articoli su lavorare
con attivisti, insegnare action research, collaborazione con movimenti ect..
Sono articoli open access the si possono scaricare da _http://ijoc.org
<http://ijoc.org/>_
Titoli:
Stefania Milan: Introduction: Toward An Epistemology of Engaged Research
Charlotte Ryan, Vanessa Salas-Wright, Mike Anastario, and Gabriel
Ca'mara Cervera: Making Research Matter... Matter to Whom?
Arne Hintz and Stefania Milan: Social Science is Police Science:
Researching Grass-Roots Activism
Peter Lewis: Scenes from a Community Radio Campaign, 1972-2009:
Un/Masking Objectivity
Jethro Pettit: Learning to do Action Research for Social Science
Ciao, Stefania

*/International Journal of Communication (IJoC)/*

*/SSRC /**/Special Section/*

/*The International Journal of Communication (IJoC),*/ in collaboration
with the Social Science Research* *Council (SSRC),* *has just published
a collection of essays featuring contributions from invited participants
to the IJoC/SSRC Forum on "Making Communication Research Matter."

These four essays explore how and why engaged research should be
conducted, with each one taking a unique approach and focusing on a
specific topic:

    * Inquiry into how researchers can include and collaborate with
      under-represented populations by asking the underlying question:
      For whom should our research matter?
    * Examination of how different roles―practitioner, academic, and
      activist---can overlap and complement each other to support the
      community radio cause in the policy arena.
    * Analysis of the obstacles and methodological challenges of working
      with grassroots activists that addresses the question of how
      different organizational cultures can best talk to each other.
    * Discussion of how personal and collective processes of reflection
      and action can empower researchers and practitioners in
      understanding dynamics of power and participation.


The articles constitute the building blocks of an epistemology of
engaged research. They are highly relevant for communications and media
scholars, as well as for students of social movements, policy and
governance, and methods for social research.

Visit _http://ijoc.org <http://ijoc.org/>_ to read these articles as
well as other topics of interest in communication study. Your comments
are certainly welcomed.

Manuel Castells & Larry Gross
/Editors/

Stefania Milan
/Guest Editor/

Arlene Luck
/Managing Editor/

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