What matters in people's social lives? What motivates and inspires our society? How do we
enact what we know? Since the first edition published in 1980, Content Analysis has helped …

This essay aims to “materialize” organizational communication in three senses. First, we
seek to make the field of study bearing this name more tangible for North American …

This research investigates two competing hypotheses from the literature: 1) the Social
Enhancement (“Rich Get Richer”) hypothesis that those more popular offline augment their …

When making decisions or talking to others, people use mental models of the world to
evaluate choices and frame discussions. This article describes a methodology for …

The Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology, now in its second edition, maintains a
strong benchmark for understanding the scope of contemporary anthropological field …

Intercultural communication competence (ICC) is an area of study that is becoming more
relevant in the increasingly multicultural communities that we live in. Though much progress …

An approach, called map analysis, for extracting, analyzing and combining representations
of individual's mental models as cognitive maps is presented. This textual analysis …

This study used semantic network analysis to investigate the themes of JUUL electronic
cigarette-related messages on Instagram posted by three account types (commercial, vape …

There is growing interest across the social sciences in the systematic analysis of “text.” 1
Little wonder: Most of the recoverable data about human thought and human behavior is text …

This article examines the structure of the International Communication Association (ICA)
through semantic network analysis. Semantic network analysis examines the relationships …