ABSTRACT

Communication research often focuses on processes of communication, such as how messages impact individuals over time or how interpersonal relationships develop and change. Despite their importance, these change processes are often implicit in much theoretical and empirical work in communication. Intensive longitudinal data are becoming increasingly feasible to collect and, when coupled with appropriate analytic frameworks, enable researchers to better explore and articulate the types of changes underlying communication processes. To facilitate the study of change processes, we (a) describe advances in data collection and analytic methods that allow researchers to articulate complex change processes of phenomena in communication research, (b) provide an overview of change processes and how they may be captured with intensive longitudinal methods, and (c) discuss considerations of capturing change when designing and implementing studies. We are excited about the future of studying processes of change in communication research, and we look forward to iterations between empirical tests and theory revision that will occur as researchers delve into studying change.

 抽象的

传播研究通常关注传播过程，例如消息如何随着时间的推移影响个人或人际关系如何发展和变化。尽管它们很重要，但这些变化过程通常隐含在传播领域的许多理论和实证工作中。收集密集的纵向数据变得越来越可行，并且与适当的分析框架相结合，使研究人员能够更好地探索和阐明沟通过程背后的变化类型。为了促进变化过程的研究，我们（a）描述了数据收集和分析方法的进步，使研究人员能够阐明传播研究中现象的复杂变化过程，（b）提供变化过程的概述以及如何捕获它们强化纵向方法，(c) 讨论设计和实施研究时捕获变化的考虑因素。我们对传播学研究变革过程的未来感到兴奋，并且期待随着研究人员深入研究变革，实证检验和理论修正之间将会出现迭代。