Brenda Dervin

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Brenda Dervin is affiliated with the following schools: Ohio State University, Michigan State University, Cornell University, University of Washington

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#2102

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#688

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#1513

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#317

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According to Wikipedia, Brenda Dervin, was a professor of communication at Ohio State University, working in the fields communication and library and information science. Her research about information seeking and information use led to the development of the sense-making methodology . Dervin received a bachelor's degree in journalism and home economics from Cornell University, with a minor in philosophy of religion, and her M.S. and PhD degrees in communication research from Michigan State University. In 1986 she acted as the first president of the International Communication Association. Dervin reviews articles and also is on editorial boards for communication and library and information science journals.

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Brenda Dervin's Published Works

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Information needs and uses. (1986) (1253)
From the mind’s eye of the user: The sense-making qualitative-quantitative methodology. (1992) (788)
AN OVERVIEW OF SENSE-MAKING RESEARCH: CONCEPTS, METHODS AND RESULTS TO DATE (1983) (706)
Sense-making theory and practice: an overview of user interests in knowledge seeking and use (1998) (672)
On studying information seeking methodologically: the implications of connecting metatheory to method (1999) (377)
Sense-Making Methodology Reader: Selected Writings of Brenda Dervin (2003) (330)
Progress in Communication Sciences (1982) (294)
Given a context by any other name: methodological tools for taming the unruly beast (1997) (283)
Useful Theory for Librarianship: Communication, Not Information. (1977) (219)
Neutral Questioning: A New Approach to the Reference Interview. (1986) (182)
Users as Research Inventions: How Research Categories Perpetuate Inequities (1989) (152)
Information seeking in context : proceedings of an international conference on research in information needs, seeking and use in different contexts 14-16 August, 1996, Tampere, Finland (1997) (122)
Strategies for Dealing with Human Information Needs: Information or Communication?. (1976) (116)
Sense-Making Methodology: Communicating Communicatively with Campaign Audiences (2001) (115)
Information ↔ democracy: an examination of underlying assumptions (1994) (105)
Sense-making in feminist social science research (1993) (91)
Comparative Theory Reconceptualized: From Entities and States to Processes and Dynamics (1991) (73)
Verbing Communication: Mandate for Disciplinary Invention (1993) (71)
Libraries reaching out with health information to vulnerable populations: guidance from research on information seeking and use. (2005) (66)
Theory and Practice in Latin American Alternative Communication Research. (1994) (55)
The Communication Environment of the Urban Poor. (1972) (53)
MASS COMMUNICATION AMONG THE URBAN POOR (1970) (50)
Measuring Aspects of Information Seeking: A Test of a Quantitative/Qualitative Methodology (1982) (49)
Information <-> Democracy: An Examination of Underlying Assumptions (1994) (47)
The Human Side of Information: An Exploration in a Health Communication Context (1980) (44)
Technologies of Power (1990) (44)
Human studies and user studies: a call for methodological interdisciplinarity (Invited paper) (2003) (42)
The Cost of Thinking: Information Economies of Ten Pacific Countries (1988) (41)
The Potential Contribution of Feminist Scholarship to the Field of Communication (1987) (36)
Researchers and practitioners talk about users and each other. Making user and audience studies matter - paper 1 (2006) (34)
Comparing situated sense-making processes in virtual worlds (2012) (34)
Use of the Mass Media by the Urban Poor; Findings of Three Research Projects, With an Annotated Bibliography. (1970) (34)
Sense-Making Methodology as an Approach to Understanding and Designing for Campaign Audiences: A Turn to Communicating Communicatively (2013) (33)
Rethinking Communication: Paradigm Issues (1989) (32)
Improving Predictions of Information Use: A Comparison of Predictor Types in a Health Communication Setting (1981) (31)
A theoretic perspective and research approach for generating research helpful to communication practice (1983) (29)
Reaching for the communicating in participatory communication (1997) (26)
Human studies and user studies: a call for methodological inter-disciplinarity (Brenda Dervin) (2003) (25)
Rethinking Communication: Vol. 2: Paradigm Exemplars. (1990) (24)
ASQ: Asking Significant Questions. Alternative Tools for Information Need and Accountability Assessments by Libraries. (1987) (22)
Private Rights, Public Wrongs: The Computer and Personal Privacy (1989) (22)
Who needs ‘POTS-plus’ services?: A comparison of residential user needs along the rural-urban continuum (1993) (21)
Cultural Experience in Context: Sense-Making the Arts (2011) (20)
Communication Pedagogy: Approaches to Teaching Undergraduate Courses in Communication (1992) (18)
Clear ... unclear? Accurate ... inaccurate? Objective ... subjective? Research ... practice? Why polarities impede the research, practice and design of information systems and how Sense-Making Methodology attempts to bridge the gaps. Part 1. (2010) (17)
Sense-Making the Information Confluence : The Whys and Hows of College and University User Satisficing of Information Needs Phase II Report (2007) (17)
How Libraries Help. (1985) (16)
The Development of Strategies for Dealing with the Information Needs of Urban Residents: Phase I; Citizen Study. Final Report. (1976) (16)
Rethinking Communication: Volume 1: Paradigm Issues (1989) (16)
Leadership 2.0 in Action: a Journey from Knowledge Management to "Knowledging" (2011) (15)
Standing in Two Worlds Looking at an Art Exhibition: Sense-Making in the Millennial Generation (2014) (14)
Listening to learn: “Inactive” publics of the arts as exemplar (2006) (13)
Issues in New Information Technology (1988) (13)
Responsible Communication: Ethical Issues in Business, Industry, and the Professions (1996) (13)
Dervin's Sense-Making Theory (2015) (13)
Keynote Address: Beyond communication: research as communicating. Making user and audience studies matter - paper 2 (2006) (12)
Adding the missing user to policy discourse: understanding US user telephone privacy concerns (1999) (12)
Comparing Arts and Popular Culture Experiences: Applying a Common Methodological Framework (2005) (11)
Technology Gamble: Informatics and Public Policy - a Study of Technological Choice (1988) (11)
Challenges to Sociocultural Predictors of Information Seeking: A Text of Race Versus Situation Movement State (1981) (10)
Situational and gender comparisons of digital game players' preferences for game features and gratifications (2009) (10)
Designing for knowledge worker informings: An exemplar application of sense-making methodology (2008) (9)
Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context (1997) (9)
Communication and Communication Studies (2010) (8)
Clear ... unclear? Accurate ... inaccurate? Objective ... subjective? Research ... practice? Why polarities impede the research, practice and design of information systems and how Sense-Making Methodology attempts to bridge the gaps. Part 2. (2010) (7)
Deep, efficient, and dialogic study of undergraduate information seeking and use: A methodological exploration (2010) (7)
Communication Behaviors as Related to Information Control Behaviors of Black Low-Income Adults (1971) (7)
The relationship of user-centered evaluation to design: addressing issues of productivity and power (1995) (7)
Media Uses and Gratifications (2009) (6)
How libraries, internet browsers, and other sources help: A comparison of sense-making evaluations of sources used in recent college/university and personal life situations by faculty, graduate student, and undergraduate users (2007) (6)
Sense-making as methodology for spirituality theory, praxis, pedagogy and research (2012) (6)
The Development of Strategies for Dealing with the Information Needs of Urban Residents: Phase II--Information Practitioner Study. (1977) (6)
Do people watch “television” or “programs'? A measurement problem (1968) (6)
From the dialogic to the contemplative: a conceptual and empirical rethinking of online communication outcomes as verbing micro-practices (2009) (6)
Hidden Depths and Everyday Secrets: How Audience Sense- Making Can Inform Arts Policy and Practice (2017) (5)
Predicting library, internet and other source use: A comparison of the predictive power of two user-defined categorizations of information seeking situations-nature of situations versus situation "emotions" assessments (2008) (5)
The U.S. Low-Income Urban Village: An Information Vacuum?. (1973) (5)
Telephone Privacy: Residential User Perspectives and Strategies (1998) (5)
MORE THAN MISUNDERSTANDING, LESS THAN WAR: "ADMINISTRATIVE" AND "CRITICAL" THEORIES, FIELD COHESION, AND (IM)POSSIBLE DIALOGUE by (2005) (4)
Situations of media engagings:: Comparing the new and the old through sense-making (2010) (4)
The Burden of Being Special: Adding Clarity about Communicating to Researching and Serving Users, Special and Otherwise (2006) (4)
The Development of Strategies for Dealing with the Information Needs of Urban Residents: Phase III - Applications. Final Report. (1977) (4)
Peopling the public sphere (1999) (4)
Everyday Encounters with Art: Comparing Expert and Novice Experiences (2016) (3)
Online Learning in Discussion Groups: A Sense-Making Approach1 (2011) (3)
The Information Needs of Californians--1984. Report #1: Technical Report. Report #2: Context, Summary, Conclusions, Implications, Applications. (1984) (3)
DESIGNING FOR KNOWLEDGE CREATION WORK (2012) (3)
Crossing the divide: Putting information seeking research and theory into computer science practice to make information search systems and services more effective for the user (2012) (2)
Sense-Making as a Methodology to Inform Interdisciplinary Communication of Science (2003) (2)
Sense-Making/Sensemaking (2016) (2)
Communication Research and Environmental Policy Decisions: Seattle's Solid Waste Planning (1976) (2)
Reports of the demise of the "user" have been greatly exaggerated: Dervin's sense-making and the methodological resuscitation of the user - looking backwards, looking forward (2006) (2)
The application of Dervin's Sense-Making Methodology to media reception studies: Interpretivism, situationality and the empowerment of media users. (2009) (2)
‘Theory’ has Many Definitions in Journalism Education (1976) (1)
Why Information Systems Fail: A Case Study Approach by Chris Sauer (Alfred Waller Limited, Henley-on-Thames. 1993), pp. xi + 369, £17.95, ISBN 1-872474-08-X (1994) (1)
Studying Audiences with Sense‐Making Methodology (2012) (1)
A Proposed Paradigm for Advancing Human Factors Research: Linking Behavioral and Avalanche Scientific Disciplines (2016) (1)
Being user-oriented: Convergences, divergences, and the potentials for systematic dialogue between disciplines and between researchers, designers, and providers (2006) (1)
The strengths of our methodological divides : five navigators, their struggles and successes (2006) (1)
The PHILCOM Division of the ICA as Seen from the Margins by a Formerly Fem-us Rebellious Ragamuffin: A Personal Reflection (2005) (1)
Rethinking Communication: Paradigm Dialogues (1989) (0)
Communicating With, Not to, the Urban Poor. ERIC/CUE Urban Diversity Series, Number 50. (1977) (0)
General Media Works (1971) (0)
Navigating an impossible dream : a synergy of possibilities, a convergence of constraints (2006) (0)
Being user-oriented (2006) (0)
Reviews (1993) (0)
The Information World of Retired Women. Elfreda A. Chatman (1993) (0)
GENERAL COMMUNICATION (2000) (0)
LEADERSHIP 2.0 AND WEB2.0 AT ERM: A JOURNEY FROM KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TO "KNOWLEDGING" (2009) (0)
SENSE-MAKING METHODOLOGY EXEMPLAR STUDY PUTTING THE MISSING USER BACK INTO TELECOMMUNICATION POLICY RESEARCH: APPLYING SENSE-MAKING METHODOLOGY by (2005) (0)
The Research-Action-Teaching Effort at Syracuse University's School Of Library Science (1971) (0)
Volume Information (1999) (0)
The Information World of Retired Women (1993) (0)
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD (2001) (0)

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