Showing papers in "Journal of Communication Inquiry in 1985"
TL;DR: In this article, a shortened version of a paper given at the Conference on Third World Development or Crisis, in Penang, Malaysia, in November 1984, has been published and the authors would like to thank the Consumers Association of Penang for permission to reproduce it here.
Abstract: (This is a shortened version of a paper given at the Conference on The Third World. Development or Crisis, in Penang, Malaysia, in November 1984, and the author would like to thank the Consumers Association of Penang for permission to reproduce it here )
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TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative analysis of two texts that report on the same subject, reportage of events in El Salvador during June of 1982 by The New York Times and The Washington Post, is presented.
Abstract: procedure, while the latter accuse all who claim they are objective of inevitably skewing the facts because of biases built into the very procedures objective journalists use. Both types of narrative, however, clearly fall within a single fact/fiction matrix that has dominated English-language discourse for the past 400 years. Where they have come to differ is in the methods used to discern what is fact, and in the claimed relationship of fact to reality. Objective and new journalism both depend on a notion of &dquo;fact&dquo; derived from Locke, for whom facts were boundary-defining techniques for loci of consciousness. Since objective and new journalism differ in the nature of the reporting locus of consciousness, they use fact in different ways. In this comparative analysis of two texts that report on the same subject, reportage of events in El Salvador during June of 1982 by The New York Timesand
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TL;DR: In a sense, communication studies and poststructuralism are already engaged in a limited dialogue as mentioned in this paper, but the possibility that the two bodies of theory might communicate with one another more fully is made doubtful both by their relative styles of theorizing and by post.
Abstract: Poststructuralist writers have regularly made critiques of widespread assumptions about the nature of human communication a central part of their projects. Within the more theoretically and philosophically oriented wing of communication studies, poststructuralism has, within the past few years, been an important stimulus in reevaluations of the field. In a sense, then, communication studies and poststructuralism are already engaged in a limited dialogue. But the possibility that the two bodies of theory might &dquo;communicate&dquo; with one another more fully is made doubtful both by their relative styles of theorizing and by post.structuralism’s
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TL;DR: Slack as mentioned in this paper discusses the most significant advance made in and by that research: its critique of autonomous technology, and confronts the particularly problematic position engendered in that advance: the reduction of complex relationships to correspondences between the development and use of communication technologies.
Abstract: Jennifer Daryl Slack is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Purdue University. This paper was firstpresented at the 34th annual International Communication Association Conference, May 24-28, 1984, San Francisco. In attempting to articulate a critical position on the relationship between communication technologies and society, critical communication scholars have been struggling with and against a powerful technological apparatus. In that struggle, critical scholars have made some significant theoretical advances, but they have also encountered some particularly difficult theoretical problems. In this paper, I will discuss the most significant advance made in and by that research: its critique of autonomous technology. I will also confront the particularly problematic position engendered in that advance: the reduction of complex relationships to correspondences between the development and use of communication technologies. Finally, I will suggest a direction for rearticulating those complex relationships in order to understand the complex interplay of unity and difference in what I will call the &dquo;technological apparatus.&dquo;
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw out some of the ethical implications from the emerging insight that media, even news media, provide audiences with opportunities to celebrate themselves, their culture, and human heritage.
Abstract: Although communications reseach has rapidly expanded its storehouse of models and data over the last two decades, the significance of these new resources for media ethics remains unrealized. This paper draws out some of the ethical implications from the emerging insight that media, even news media, provide audiences with opportunities to celebrate themselves, their culture, and human heritage. My essay engages in three tasks: a delineation of what it means to view news
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TL;DR: Baym et al. as discussed by the authors pointed out that Hawthorne's devaluation was triggered by the immense popularity of Maria Cummins' The Lamplighter (1854/1902) which sold 40,000 copies within two months and had exceeded
Abstract: During the mid-nineteenth century, when the American literary market was dominated by domestic romance novels written largely by and for women (Baym, 1978), Nathaniel Hawthorne unleashed his now oft-quoted invective against this &dquo;d d [sic) mob of scribbling women&dquo; authors. Hawthorne’s devaluation was triggered by the immense popularity of Maria Cummins’ The Lamplighter (1854/1902) which sold 40,000 copies within two months and had exceeded
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the methods used to interpret alien cultures also helpful in decoding our own to understand the similarities that unite us all as human beings, or are the specifics of culture so different that comparison becomes futile and meaningless.
Abstract: How can we decode other cultures-cultures that are separated from us in time and space, cultures that are &dquo;common sense&dquo; for their members yet impenetrable to outsiders? Are there basic similarities that unite us all as human beings, or are the specifics of culture so different that comparison becomes futile and meaningless ? And are the methods used to interpret alien cultures also helpful in decoding our own?
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TL;DR: The communitarians discussed by Jean Quandt include: Charles Colley, John Dewey, Mary Parker Follett, Franklin Giddings, Frederic Howe, Robert Park, Josiah Royce, and William ~llen White.
Abstract: ism and, instead, foster &dquo;a sense of community, or of sharing in a common or spiritual whole, membership in which gives to all a kind of inner equality, no matter what their special parts may be&dquo; (Quandt, 1970, p. 58). The nine communitarians discussed by Jean Quandt include: Charles Colley, John Dewey, Mary Parker Follett, Franklin Giddings, Frederic Howe, Robert Park, Josiah Royce, and William ~llen White. Quandt characterized this group as com-