What's in a Name?

These words critique the ongoing tendency to create false dichotomies between different approaches in media studies. Delivered as part of a panel on the future of media studies at the 2013 Society for Cinema and Media Studies, I offer a definition of critique that all critical media scholars should share.     

“Communication,” “Critical”

Despite the proliferation of critical studies of communication, the meanings of the words “communication” and “critical” remain deeply contested. Attending to the history of the use of these terms inside and outside of the academy offers a broader perspective on some of the most pressing issues confronting scholars of communication today.     

什么是媒介经济学?

媒介与传播学研究传统上是以非经济原则为主导的。但是,对媒介研究者来说,经济学也是一个非常有价值的研究领域,经济学与理解媒介产业如何运营有着密切的关系。本文对媒介经济的一些基本概念作了介绍,内容包括媒介经济涉及哪些方面?宏观经济与微观经济的区别有哪些?什么是媒介经济的特殊性?媒介经济的有哪些主要特征?     

Entertaining audiences,ensuring inclusivity,and considering media influence: Sixth graders’ understanding of media producers’ responsibility

Qualitatively analyzing 35 responses from a letter-writing homework in a media literacy education program, this study examines sixth graders’ understandings of producers’ responsibility in creating media content. Responses suggest their understandings about producers’ responsibility are bounded within the context of their media use as consumers, rather than as citizens. Findings focus on the importance of introducing contextual factors of media production as well as the challenges that researchers and educators might face.     

Communication’s forgotten narratives: the lost history of Charles Siepmann and critical policy research

The field of communication has much to recover from its intellectual history, particularly critical traditions that have been pushed to the margins. Such a project is inherently political: how scholars narrate the histories of their fields reflect tacit assumptions about discursive boundaries and what counts for legitimate scholarship. Prominent historical narratives typically emphasize certain sub-fields and research traditions while giving short shrift to others. Suggesting larger erasures and deeper tensions in the history of the field, this article aims to recover one such neglected thread, embodied by a reformist policy scholar who is all but forgotten in communication research: Charles Siepmann.     

从冲突到对话--评传播研究典范:结构功能主义、政治经济学与文化研究

本文旨在论述过去几十年曾主导美国传播研究、并仍在影响今天研究的3种典范 :结构功能主义、政治经济学和文化研究 ,分析这 3种传播研究典范与当时美国社会背景、历史状况及主流社会思潮间的关系 ,并回顾每种典范的代表人物 ,探讨每一典范的解释及存在的缺陷 ,以寻求典范之间对话与沟通的空间     

浅论传媒经济是"权力经济"

本文在对传媒经济的产生和发展进行回顾、对媒介权力的实质和产生原因进行探讨、对"权力经济"展开重新认识的基础上,提出了传媒经济是"权力经济"的观点,并进一步分析了这一观点的指导意义。     

英国文化马克思主义与二战后媒介研究的生成

\"媒介研究\"是英国文化研究发轫以降的一大核心旨趣,其兴起与二战后英国\"丰裕社会\"的来临、媒介文化的爆炸以及\"新左派\"诞生的特定历史情境紧密相关。\"文化马克思主义\"旨在破除教条主义对\"经济基础与上层建筑\"理论模式的机械阐释,强调从一种隐喻意义上理解二者之间的复杂交互关系,并且在社会历史总过程中将\"文化\"重构为一种\"日常的\"生活方式。霍加特、威廉斯以及青年霍尔的早期研究充分展现了\"文化马克思主义\"在媒介研究领域的理论特性。     

基于大众传播媒介的恶性传播初探

本文初步探讨大众传播中的恶性传播的特点,来源和部分解决办法.     

"科学发展观与媒介化社会构建"系列报告之三我国社会的媒介影响与媒介依赖

大众媒介的飞速发展使人类社会步入媒介化时代.如今,媒介已经成为人们社会政治生活和日常生活中不可缺少的东西,人们对大众传媒的依赖性越来越大.大众媒介具有巨大的影响,它缔造了人们所处的大众文化环境,制约了人们的认知与行为,这种无形的影响力被认为是产生媒介化的主要原因.伴随着媒介对社会无孔不入的渗透,受众对媒介的依赖也愈发增强,突出地表现为人对媒介的工具性依赖和内容依赖.     

政治信息沟通对传媒的诉求

政治信息沟通是一个国家政治文明建设的缩影.现代化传播媒介以其不可替代的优势,正日益成为世界政治舞台上重要的信息沟通工具.本文从解析传媒的政治功能着手,论述了传媒在当代政治信息沟通方面发挥重要作用的可能性,并对当代中国政治信息沟通对传媒的诉求进行了阐述.     

略论当前中国传媒经济研究存在的几个问题

中国传媒产业的迅猛发展推动了传媒经济研究,但传媒经济学研究依然存在学科归属不清、研究进路不明、传媒经济本质存在争议等问题。     

传媒业中的规模经济与范围经济

本文针对传媒业运作中的规模经济与范围经济现象进行了阐析。作者先在理论上对规模经济与范围经济进行辨析 ,然后列举传媒业中与单一传媒组织以及传媒集团有关的规模经济与范围经济现象 ;论文最后就如何追求规模经济与范围经济对传媒业提出了建议     

论地方历史文化资源的传媒内容开发

本文对地方历史文化资源的传媒内容开发进行了分析.     

The Formation of Swedish Media Studies, 1960–1980

Around 1960, the politics of the emerging media society in Sweden tended to fixate the formative functions of mass communication. The monopoly of public service broadcast media, press subsidies and new tendencies in film policy were some of the issues around which uncertainty prevailed. New methods to provide reliable data were sought by politicians, since empirical facts were required as arguments for an updated media policy. This article examines the different ways that the field of media studies was introduced in Sweden between 1960 and 1980. We argue that Swedish academic media studies departed from, and emerged within, a rather diffuse borderland between industry, politics and academia. The formation of national media research in Sweden can partly be seen as an effect of politicians and the media industry wanting to be better informed on issues such as media influence, media ownership and the habits and composition of the media audience.