CHAPTER 1

Research Resources
Check out the following contemporary readings in communication at your library. (Hint: These are good sources to start with if you are asked to write a research paper!)

Caplan, E. S. (2001). "Challenging the Mass-Interpersonal Communication Dichotomy: Are We Witnessing the Emergence of an Entirely New Communication System?" Electronic Journal of Communication, 11.

Morton, T. A., and J. M. Duck. (2001). "Communication and Health Beliefs: Mass and Interpersonal Influences on Perceptions of Risk to Self and Others." Communication Research, 28: 602-626.

Rubin, A. M., and R. B. Rubin. (2001). "Interface of Personal and Mediated Communication: Fifteen Years Later." Electronic Journal of Communication, 11.

Stamp, G. H. (1999). "A Qualitatively Constructed Interpersonal Communication Model: A Grounded Theory Analysis." Human Communication Research, 4: 531-547.

Walen, H. R., and M. E. Lachman. (2000). "Social Support and Strain From Partner, Family, and Friends: Costs and Benefits for Men and Women in Adulthood." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 7: 5-30.

Links to Resources on the Web
* Visit the home page of the National Communication Association and explore the many topics that communication researchers study related to the human communication process. Click on conference programs and see if you can identify at least two scholars who are studying topics related to interpersonal communication. Are you surprised by some of the topics that communication scholars are studying? What did you learn by looking at a current conference program about what is possible in the field of communication studies?

* Visit the site of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to consider the many ways that "noise" might be defined differently by those who are deaf or hard of hearing and those with average or above average hearing abilities. What do you learn on this site that helps you reflect more thoroughly on many of the topics in Chapter 1?