1. An Agenda for Open Science in Communication
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Sabine Trepte, Neil A. Lewis, German Neubaum, Christopher J. Carpenter, Jaime Banks, Xiaohui Wang, Renwen Zhang, Frank M. Schneider, Stephan Winter, René Weber, Bree McEwan, James D. Ivory, Anna Sophie Kümpel, Tobias Dienlin, Brittany I. Davidson, Josephine Lukito, Emese Domahidi, Richard Huskey, Nicole C. Krämer, Nicholas David Bowman, Julian Unkel, Eike Mark Rinke, Johannes Breuer, Sven Engesser, Niklas Johannes, Sonja Utz, Tim Smits, Nuri Kim, Douglas A. Parry, Lindsey M. Bier, Andrea Stevenson Won, Benjamin K. Johnson, Jacob T. Fisher, Ivar Vermeulen, David A. Ellis, Philipp K. Masur, Claes H. de Vreese, Communication Science, Network Institute, Communication Choices, Content and Consequences (CCCC), and Communication
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Open science ,Linguistics and Language ,Registered Reports ,media_common.quotation_subject ,050801 communication & media studies ,050105 experimental psychology ,Language and Linguistics ,0508 media and communications ,Promotion (rank) ,Open Science ,Political science ,Replicability ,Openness to experience ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Generalizability theory ,Publication ,media_common ,Replication crisis ,business.industry ,Communication ,05 social sciences ,Preregistration ,Public relations ,Transparency (behavior) ,Reproducibility ,Communication and Media ,Psychologie ,ddc:320 ,business ,SDG 4 - Quality Education ,Qualitative research - Abstract
Contains fulltext : 226720.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) In the last 10 years, many canonical findings in the social sciences appear unreliable. This so-called "replication crisis" has spurred calls for open science practices, which aim to increase the reproducibility, replicability, and generalizability of findings. Communication research is subject to many of the same challenges that have caused low replicability in other fields. As a result, we propose an agenda for adopting open science practices in Communication, which includes the following seven suggestions: (1) publish materials, data, and code; (2) preregister studies and submit registered reports; (3) conduct replications; (4) collaborate; (5) foster open science skills; (6) implement Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines; and (7) incentivize open science practices. Although in our agenda we focus mostly on quantitative research, we also reflect on open science practices relevant to qualitative research. We conclude by discussing potential objections and concerns associated with open science practices. 26 p.
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- 2021
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