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American Pragmatism And Communication Research (Hardcover)
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American Pragmatism And Communication Research (Hardcover)
Series: Communication
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This monograph examines the past, present, and potential
relationship between American pragmatism and communication
research. The contributors provide a bridge between communication
studies and philosophy, subjects often developed somewhat in
isolation from each other.
Addressing topics, such as qualitative and quantitative research,
ethics, media research, and feminist studies, the chapters in this
volume:
*discuss how a pragmatic, Darwinian approach to inquiry has guided
and might further guide communication research;
*advocate a functional view of communication, based on Dewey's
mature notion of transaction;
*articulate a pragmatist's aesthetics and connect it to Deweyan
democracy;
*discuss the similarities and differences between Dewey's notion
of inquiry and the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg
Gadamer;
*apply accommodation theory, linked to symbolic interactionism and
more generally to the social behaviorism of George H. Mead and his
followers, to media research;
*interpret media-effects evidence in light of pragmatist ideas
about inquiry; and
*argue that pragmatism theorizes about despair and life's sense of
the tragic.
This book is written to be readily accessible to students and
professional academics within and outside the field of
communication studies without extensive training in specialized
areas of communication study.
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