Realism, logic and social communication

C.S. Peirce's classification of science in communication studies and journalism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11417455
AutoresArnold Shepperson (autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen22
Número2
Páginas242-294
Fecha de publicación2008-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Arts (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0256-0046 • E-ISSN: 1992-6049
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02560040802472450
OpenAlexW2010070039
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas14

The nature of communication study discourse tends to focus on how to teach it, and often hides its pragmatic origins in the field of inquiry. The article uses C.S. Peirce's philosophical realism to address the needs of intellectual inquiry in communications under increasing social and political globalisation. Journalism, media and communication (JMC) studies are treated as institutional functions within a changing, and often shrinking, social realm. I conclude that environments of social and political change offer JMC practitioners a good opportunity for reconceptualising their relationships with other practitioners in the changing social realm of post-modernity

Communication studies · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Focus (optics · Journalism · Media studies · Modernity · Political communication · Political science · Politics · Realism · Realm · Social science · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Law · Philosophy · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Rhetoric and Communication Studies