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Communication Studies (communication + studies)
Selected AbstractsConsidering "The Professional" in Communication Studies: Implications for Theory and Research Within and Beyond the Boundaries of Organizational CommunicationCOMMUNICATION THEORY, Issue 2 2007George Cheney This essay positions contemporary "professionalism" as a contested term and a nexus of important theoretical and practical concerns for communication scholars, including, for example, those engaged in the empirical, interpretive, and critical examinations of culture and the self. We advance communication-based understandings of the meanings and practices of professionalism as a complement to the predominantly sociological conceptions of the rise and place of the professional in modern industrialized societies. We are deliberately playful with the term professionalism in demonstrating the power of its ambiguity for reflecting, shaping, and indexing particular kinds of social relations and expectations for them. Part of our argument concerns the complex interplay of symbolism and materiality in the domains of interaction and artifacts surrounding "the professional," and especially its embodiment in work and other settings. This brings us directly to an examination of the "intersectionality" of aspects of difference in the world of the professional (and by implication, the nonprofessional), including race, gender, and class, and to observe a broad-based cultural dialectic of the civilized and the primitive. Finally, we briefly consider extensions as relevant to domains of communication studies beyond the accustomed domain of organizational communication. [source] Shifting voices, oppositional discourse, and new visions for communication studiesJOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, Issue 1 2001L L Putnam This address, delivered at ICA's 50th anniversary conference, calls on the association to take stock of where we are and how we should come together. It reviews 3 periods in the field's recent past: fermentation, fragmentation, and legitimation. Then, drawing from several of Bahktin's notions of dialogue, it summons scholars to come together by engaging in alternative modes of discourse - ones that center on multiple and shifting voices and oppositional discourse. It advocates using the construct of voice rather than paradigms, theories, and academic divisions, to develop complementary ways of understanding. In particular, it calls on the field to take inventory of multiple and shifting voices in reviews and critiques of the literature, to connect with each other through exploring shifting concepts and theories, and to engage in joint actions in ways that embrace and preserve differences. [source] The delineation of an interdisciplinary specialty in terms of a journal set: The case of communication studiesJOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Issue 8 2009Loet Leydesdorff A journal set in an interdisciplinary or newly developing area can be determined by including the journals classified under the most relevant ISI Subject Categories into a journal,journal citation matrix. Despite the fuzzy character of borders, factor analysis of the citation patterns enables us to delineate the specific set by discarding the noise. This methodology is illustrated using communication studies as a hybrid development between political science and social psychology. The development can be visualized using animations which support the claim that a specific journal set in communication studies is increasingly developing, notably in the "being cited" patterns. The resulting set of 28 journals in communication studies is smaller and more focused than the 45 journals classified by the ISI Subject Categories as "Communication." The proposed method is tested for its robustness by extending the relevant environments to sets including many more journals. [source] Considering "The Professional" in Communication Studies: Implications for Theory and Research Within and Beyond the Boundaries of Organizational CommunicationCOMMUNICATION THEORY, Issue 2 2007George Cheney This essay positions contemporary "professionalism" as a contested term and a nexus of important theoretical and practical concerns for communication scholars, including, for example, those engaged in the empirical, interpretive, and critical examinations of culture and the self. We advance communication-based understandings of the meanings and practices of professionalism as a complement to the predominantly sociological conceptions of the rise and place of the professional in modern industrialized societies. We are deliberately playful with the term professionalism in demonstrating the power of its ambiguity for reflecting, shaping, and indexing particular kinds of social relations and expectations for them. Part of our argument concerns the complex interplay of symbolism and materiality in the domains of interaction and artifacts surrounding "the professional," and especially its embodiment in work and other settings. This brings us directly to an examination of the "intersectionality" of aspects of difference in the world of the professional (and by implication, the nonprofessional), including race, gender, and class, and to observe a broad-based cultural dialectic of the civilized and the primitive. Finally, we briefly consider extensions as relevant to domains of communication studies beyond the accustomed domain of organizational communication. [source] Amassing the Multitude: Revisiting Early Audience StudiesCOMMUNICATION THEORY, Issue 3 2005Jack Z. Bratich This article examines early problematizations of "the audience" in communication studies (in Michel Foucault's sense of problematization). Using Michael Hardt and Toni Negri's concept of the "multitude," the author argues that the audience is a product of discursive constructions, but that these constructions themselves draw upon the ontological practices of what may be called "audience powers" or "mediated multitudes." Problematizations of the audience in communication studies are examples of what Negri calls "constituted power," as they seek to capture conceptually the immanent practices of audience constituent powers. Concentrating on 3 early audience discourses (propaganda, marketing, and moral panics), the author assesses how audience power provoked these problematizations and argues that an ontology of media subjects and audience powers offers new perspectives on audiences and audience studies. [source] Space Matters: The Power and Practice of SpaceCOMMUNICATION THEORY, Issue 1 2003Raka Shome This article argues for the importance of a spatial perspective in critical communication studies. It suggests that a focus on spatial relations of power enables scholars of communication and culture to understand and theorize the complex ways in which identities are being reproduced in our current moment of globalization. The article suggests that, instead of theorizing cultural power only through the category of identity, we need to adopt a spatial perspective on power that may better enable us to theorize various relations of identity and culture. [source] So Real Illusions of Black Intellectualism: Exploring Race, Roles, and Gender in the AcademyCOMMUNICATION THEORY, Issue 1 2000Ronald L. Jackson II The absence of any written mainstream valuation of African American theories and historical relevancies presents a significant commentary and dilemma within the field of human communication studies and other disciplines as well. It forces committed African American intellectuals to ask ourselves if we have created a large enough arsenal of quality theories or if we have simply recycled theories produced by "observers" to describe our communicative behavior. If African American theories have been created, tested, and verified, then where are they, and why are they not being recognized by the academy? African American scholars must define what it means to be central to critical scholarship, determine whether this position has been achieved, and finally decide to continue to push the margins. This essay is to be read as an initial exploration that examines the sociopolitical factors of race and gender as contributing variables to the success of African American intellectualism. [source] The Exceptional Community: On Strangers, Foreigners, and CommunicationCOMMUNICATION, CULTURE & CRITIQUE, Issue 1 2010Garnet C. Butchart The political philosophy of Giorgio Agamben (1998) is linked to the key concept of "community" for critical communication studies. The essay discusses how community is haunted by foreignness and how communication is constituted by estrangement. La communauté exceptionnelle : Des inconnus, des étrangers et de la communication Garnet C. Butchart Un court commentaire sur la philosophie politique d'Agamben (1995/1998) en tant qu'elle se rapporte au mot-clé«communauté» en études critiques de la communication. Ce texte discute de ce que la communauté est hantée par l'allogénéité (foreignness) et la communication est constituée par le sentiment de marginalité (estrangement). Die außergewöhnliche Gemeinschaft: Über Fremde, Ausländer und Kommunikation Garnet C. Butchart Ein Kurzkommentar zur politischen Philosophie von Agamben (1995/1998) und deren Beziehung zum Schlüsselwort ,,Gemeinschaft" in der kritischen Kommunikationswissenschaft. Der Essay diskutiert, wie Gemeinschaft durch Fremdheit heimgesucht wird und wie Kommunikation durch Entfremdung konstituiert wird. [source] | ||||||||||