Links to Communication Research-Related Sites

• CommuniStation - a self-guided social science research tutorial. It is no longer being maintained, and is incomplete, but it is may help you better understand some of the concepts presented in class. It was designed by former Rutgers University SCILS faculty.
• Prof. Kay Vandergrift's "researchmethods" page is a very nice compilation of links to social science research-related web sites and pages. Prof. Vandergrift is on the faculty of the Library & Information Science department at SCILS. Here are some of the links it contains that may be particularly helpful or interesting to communication research students:
• "Scientific method is basis for all of today's testing of hypotheses"
• Research Design
• Selecting Statistics
• Notes on Theory Construction
• The Chance Database Welcome Page
• Surveys On-line
• Statistics on the Web
• Universal Codex for the Social Sciences
• Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World-Wide Web - You may find something of interest by browsing through these e-journals. This site is accessible via the Rutgers University Library page as well.
• Rutgers University Libraries - This is the starting point for RUL on-line catalogs and searchable indexes. Assignment #4 provides more information about how to use the library to conduct literature searches in pursuit of communication research topics.
• Communication Resources for the Academic Curriculum - This site contains links to mailing lists, "megasites," scholarly organizations, and other interesting web pages.
• New Jersey Communication Association - This is a scholarly organization devoted to communication research and study. It holds conferences and publishes a journal for articles on communication research and theory.
• The New York Times on the Web - You have to register, but that's free and painless. This is good place to look for ideas, and the Science Times on Tuesdays usually has some interesting articles.
• On-Line Indexes - Here are some search service home pages that you can use to see what sort of information is available on the World Wide Web.
• Excite
• WebCrawler Searching
• Yahoo!
• Other Communication Research Syllabi -- See how professors in other universities teach this material, at a variety of levels. Decide for yourself whether you'd rather take my course or somebody else's ;-)
• Communication Research Methods: Social Sciences Syllabus
• Communication Research Methods Syllabus
• The Mysterious Case of the Blue M&Ms - Here's a nice little statistical essay involving sampling error and the perplexing underrepresentation of blue M&Ms in what should otherwise be representative samples.
• STATISTICS - This is a lecture outline explaining the normal curve, percentiles, and z-scores. You need a frames-capable browser to go through it, however.
• Statistics 30X Class Notes - Here is an extensive syllabus and class notes for a mid-level statistics course. It very thoroughly explains things like the normal curve, standard deviation, and statistical tests.

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