"Today the sweep and import of communication have become virtually uncontained. To study communication, it is now widely evident, is not only to be concerned with the contributions of a restricted set of media, either to the socialization of children and youth or to buying and voting decisions. Nor i"
"This book is a sustained effort to trace this extraordinary transit of ideas. Useful historical exegeses of thinking about communication, of course, already exist—one thinks first of Hanno Hardt's Critical Communication Studies and of Dan Czitrom's chapters in Media and the American Mind."
"What is shared in "communication," and on what terms, are deeply problematic issues. How, then, to reconcile an idea of communication limited to an undoubted but systematically exaggerated capacity for shared meaning, with a concept of society capable of bearing the twin realities of structural conf"
"请容许我从社会整体( social totality)这个概念开始。我们这么提问:先后相随的各个学派,通过哪些图示( schemas)而思考传播过程与广如苍穹的社会领域之间的关系? 这些正规的图示有三种;在一个世纪以来的传播研究中,各个图示各有奉行者。第一种,有些人想要将传播过程或功能放入一个早已存在的社会整体中;如此一来,这个整体观就是一种机械式的修正,通过引入某种新的成分而调整。关于这种图示,我们经常听到的说法有二。其一,我们经常听到有人说这种或那种传播科技带来迴然有别的新变化;其次,我们还经常听到有人说,大众传媒具有独特意义,它是控制当代社会的代理人。不过我们应该可以看出,以上这些说法其"