传播学科的兴起:一段重新阐释的历史

传播学学科建立之初,选择了以哥伦比亚学派为代表的结构功能主义而不是芝加哥学派的传播研究范式.尽管哥伦比亚学派无论在理论与方法上都不能说更有优势,但其理论成果更容易被意识形态所用,其定量方法更容易为当局的决策提供证据,其研究范式更容易划定传播学科的边界并为该学科带来更多的资源,因此,急于为传播学奠定专业主义边界的施拉姆不假思索地选择了哥伦比亚学派.然而这一选择导致了传播学不但受到意识形态的高度控制,而且也有一套极其保守和封闭的学科规训,这一切使传播学科在20世纪70年代以后就不断受到合法性的质疑.

Rise of the Discipline of Communication:-A Period of Re-interpretated History

When the discipline of communication was established,the structural functionalism,represented by Colombia School,was chosen as the research paradigm instead of that stood for by Chicago School.Despite Colombia School's little advantage on theory and method,its theoretical outcome could be more easily used by ideology,its quantitative method could provide the evidence in an easier way for the authorities to make the decision,and its research paradigm could be used more easily to define the boundary of commun...