Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM): A Research Manual

Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM): A Research Manual consists of the work of Barnett Pearce, Vernon Cronen, and their colleagues over the past 40 years. The theory offers a rich set of ideas for understanding communication processes. Still dedicated to ways in which people coordinate interaction and construct meaning, the theory offers fresh ways of examining human social life. This manual provides a brief, clear, and useful set of tools for CMM research.

Although this booklet does provide a short introduction to the theory, it assumes some background in CMM theory and is designed for CMMers who want a clearer picture of how to conduct research in this tradition.

Of particular importance in this endeavor is maintaining a communication perspective to ensure that researchers focus on the communication processes, rather than look through it to something else. To achieve this goal, researchers can describe the process, interpret communication events, provide critique, and assert action plans. The framing of research questions is especially important in maintaining a communication perspective.

Research tools are organized into the categories of description, interpretation, critique and action. In addition, the CMM consulting method known as SEAVA is translated into research processes that involve storyboarding, enriching stories, analyzing interaction, visioning, and acting.

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Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM): A Research Manual

Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM): A Research Manual consists of the work of Barnett Pearce, Vernon Cronen, and their colleagues over the past 40 years. The theory offers a rich set of ideas for understanding communication processes. Still dedicated to ways in which people coordinate interaction and construct meaning, the theory offers fresh ways of examining human social life. This manual provides a brief, clear, and useful set of tools for CMM research.

Although this booklet does provide a short introduction to the theory, it assumes some background in CMM theory and is designed for CMMers who want a clearer picture of how to conduct research in this tradition.

Of particular importance in this endeavor is maintaining a communication perspective to ensure that researchers focus on the communication processes, rather than look through it to something else. To achieve this goal, researchers can describe the process, interpret communication events, provide critique, and assert action plans. The framing of research questions is especially important in maintaining a communication perspective.

Research tools are organized into the categories of description, interpretation, critique and action. In addition, the CMM consulting method known as SEAVA is translated into research processes that involve storyboarding, enriching stories, analyzing interaction, visioning, and acting.

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Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM): A Research Manual

Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM): A Research Manual

Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM): A Research Manual

Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM): A Research Manual

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Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM): A Research Manual consists of the work of Barnett Pearce, Vernon Cronen, and their colleagues over the past 40 years. The theory offers a rich set of ideas for understanding communication processes. Still dedicated to ways in which people coordinate interaction and construct meaning, the theory offers fresh ways of examining human social life. This manual provides a brief, clear, and useful set of tools for CMM research.

Although this booklet does provide a short introduction to the theory, it assumes some background in CMM theory and is designed for CMMers who want a clearer picture of how to conduct research in this tradition.

Of particular importance in this endeavor is maintaining a communication perspective to ensure that researchers focus on the communication processes, rather than look through it to something else. To achieve this goal, researchers can describe the process, interpret communication events, provide critique, and assert action plans. The framing of research questions is especially important in maintaining a communication perspective.

Research tools are organized into the categories of description, interpretation, critique and action. In addition, the CMM consulting method known as SEAVA is translated into research processes that involve storyboarding, enriching stories, analyzing interaction, visioning, and acting.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781938552601
Publisher: The Taos Institute Publications
Publication date: 08/31/2017
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 82
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.17(d)

Table of Contents

PREFACE: CMM as Research

INTRODUCTION

1 | CMM OVERVIEW

A Little History

Philosophical Orientation

Some Key Concepts

Additional Resources on CMM

2 | POSITIONING THE RESEARCH

The Communication Perspective

Types and Stages: The DICA Model

Reflexivity in CMM Research

Community-Based Action Research

3 | RESEARCH QUESTIONS

Maintaining a Communication Perspective

General Guidelines for Generating Research Questions*

Person Perspectives and Research Questions

Contexts for Research Questions: Where is the Focus?

Questions That Make Connections: Reflexivity

4 | TOOLS FOR DESCRIPTION

Describing Interactions

Collecting Descriptive Data: The Usual Suspects

5 | TOOLS FOR INTERPRETATION

Stories as Interpretive Data

Contexts of Meaning and Action

Logical Force

Loops

The Reflecting team

6 | TOOLS FOR CRITIQUE AND ACTION

Bifurcation Points

Evaluating Worlds Made

Visioning Preferred Alternative Patterns

Acting Intentionally

7 | SEAVA IN RESEARCH

Overview

8 | USING CMM CREATIVELY

REFERENCES

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