Waisbord's (2008) article did a nice job of explaining the limited use of participatory communication in international aid institutions. I was disappointed that Waisbord didn't offer any advice on how organizations could use the three ways institutions undercut potential contributions of participatory communication to improve other organizations. I mention this mostly because I wanted to see how everyone else felt. My question then is this: When is it appropriate to apply our research for the reader and when is it appropriate to end with questions that the reader can ask themselves?
This is our third week of student lead discussions and one of the questions I keep asking myself is how to know when it is appropriate to take a certain perspective or paradigm when investigating a topic?
It seems as though from previous class discussions that many feel normative lacks in it's perspective. If we continue to see problems with the normative approach, why do we continue to take this perspective and do research from this paradigm.
My final question relates to methodology and perspectives. Why don't we find more mixed methods research in organizational communication studies? Very few, if any, of the articles we've read this semester have been mixed methods studies. It seems to me that this methodology might help to connect multiple perspectives.
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