Popularizing Research

Phillip Vannini is Professor in the School of Communication & Culture at Royal Roads University and Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Public Ethnography. He is author/editor of eight books, including Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society (edited with J. Patrick Williams, 2009), The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities: Routes Less Travelled (2009), Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life: Ethnographic Approaches (Peter Lang, 2009), and The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture: A Sociology of the Senses (authored with Dennis Waskul and Simon Gottschalk, 2011).

«Essential advice for social scientists fed up with the navel-gazing and esoterica that typifies representation in so much academic research, complete with hard-copy and internet integrations and a proper caution for junior faculty about being too bold in the crusty old corridors of academe – a timely and liberating step toward making social science research available for everyone through innovative links to modern media.» (Ivan Brady, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, State University of New York; author of fiction, poetry, and dozens of scholarly articles and books, including ‘The Time at Darwin’s Reef: Poetic Explorations in Anthropology and History’)

• Contents: Phillip Vannini: Introduction: Popularizing Research – Kip Jones: Short Film as Performative Social Science: The Story behind Princess Margaret – Anne Harris/Nyadol Nyuon: «People Get Tired»: African Australian Cross-Cultural Dialogue and Ethnocinema – Carly Gieseler: Sturgis 2.0: Crafting a Filmic-Web Dialogue – Frank Sligo/Elspeth Tilley: Cartoons as Praxis: Negotiating Different Needs in Adult Literacy Research Reporting – Jean J. Schensul/Colleen Coleman/Sarah Diamond/Raul Pino/Alessander Rey Bermudez/Orlando Velazco/Regina Blake/Noelle Bessette: Rollin’ and Dustin’: The Use of Graphic Images for the Dissemination of Study Results to Participant Communities – Gregory P. Spira: Focusing on Community: Photovoice, Local Action and Global Public Engagement – Brigid McAuliffe/Bryce Merrill: Mixed-Media Storytelling Installation: Embody – Guven Peter Witteveen: Producing Multimedia Exhibits for Multiple Audiences at the Hokkaido University Museum – Vivienne Brunsden/Joe Robinson/Jeffrey Goatcher/Rowena Hill: Using Multimedia Artworks to Disseminate Psychological Research on Attacks on Firefighters – Lydia Nakashima Degarrod: Geographies of the Imagination: Engaging Audiences and Participants in Collaborative Interdisciplinary Gallery Installations – Kevin Howley: Radio: Engaging Communities through Grassroots Media – Hinda Mandell/Carol M. Liebler: Music of the Streets: Bringing Local Rappers to the Ivory Tower – Mark Neumann: Audio Documentary: Hearing Places and the Representation of Sonic Culture – John Llewellyn: The Relevance of Relevance: Why and How I Write Op-eds – Aliaa Dawoud: A Short Story about Female Characters in Egyptian Soap Operas – Joseph P. Zompetti: Persuasive Prestidigitation: Exploring the Rhetorical Power of Magical Performance in a Popular Magazine Article – Daniel Doherty: Narrating Executive Development: Using «Writing as Inquiry» to Enrich the Coaching Dialogue – Ruth Garbutt: It’s What You Do with It That Counts: Disseminating Research about Sex and Relationships Using Reports and Leaflets for People with Learning Disabilities – Phillip Vannini: Public Ethnography and Multimodality: Research from the Book to the Web – Shannon Daub: Mobilizing Research Publications to (Re)Frame Neoliberal Welfare Reform – Ann Dale/Jason Luckerhoff/François Guillemette: e-Dialogues: Real-Time Online Conversations – Brandy King/Michael Rich: Using Social Media to Empower Parents in the Digital Age: Ask the Mediatrician – Mike Evans/Jon Corbett: New Media, Participatory Methodologies, and the Popularization of Mètis History – Jessica Lester/Rachael Gabriel: A Performance of Special Education Meetings: Theatre of the Absurd – David Jan Jurasek: Learn Dis!: A Community does Research on Itself through Playback Theatre – John Guiney Yallop/Sean Wiebe: Moving Poetic Inquiry beyond the Academy: How Two Poets Popularize Their Research – Kimberly Dark: Popularizing Research as a Career: Personal, Powerful, Political – Mark David Ryan: Tips for Generating a Media Release and Media Coverage: How the Media Ate Up My Research on Aussie Horror Movies – Mara Einstein: Publishing and Publicity: The Path to Popular Audiences – Philip A. Saunders: Reaching Mainstream Audiences: Media Tips for Academics and the Challenge of Storytelling – Christopher J. Schneider: Interacting with News Media Journalists: Reflections of a Sociologist.