Mapping Heterogenity: Qualitative Research in Communication

 

The international conference, Qualitative Research in Communication, held in 2013 at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest set out to explore a range of topics related to the qualitative research in communication including narrativity, social identity construction, media, framing, discourse analysis and semiotics, intercultural, organizational and counseling communication. Papers from a various range of national contexts were presented, a selection of which are compiled in this volume Mapping Heterogeneity: Qualitative Research in Communication. The conference is the result of several years of qualitative studies in communication conducted at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration and is already developing into a research project in which we aim to investigate the practices of qualitative research in communication in different cultural contexts. The volume does not focus on methodology, but rather gathers papers in which scholars have used qualitative methods in communication research.