Practice Approaches and the Ethnography of Communication: Investigating for the Possibility of a Mutually Beneficial Relationship

Authors

Keith Berry, Southern Illinois University at CarbondaleFollow

Abstract

In this essay, I explore the areas of accord and discord between two efficacious modes of research: practice approaches and the Ethnography of Communication (EOC). As an interpersonal and intercultural scholar, I carefully analyze these approaches in order to find innovative ways to describe the diversity that I see in modern social interaction. Working against paradigms that suggest using either one approach or another, I engage this project hoping (expecting?) to find and/both alternatives for communication study. I argue that, in spite of their differences, practice and EOC traditions co-exist in a mutually beneficial relationship for the study of communication in 2002.

Keywords

Ethnography of Communication, Practice Approaches, Ethnography, Pluralist Research, and Qualitative Methods

Publication Date

12-1-2003

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2003.1873

Recommended APA Citation

Berry, K. (2003). Practice Approaches and the Ethnography of Communication: Investigating for the Possibility of a Mutually Beneficial Relationship. The Qualitative Report, 8(4), 640-654. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2003.1873