Popularizing Research

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

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')