书目名称 | In Search of a Simple Introduction to Communication | 编辑 | Nimrod Bar-Am | 视频video | | 概述 | Offers an up-to-date study of the theoretical challenges facing Communication studies.Discusses the extent to which the challenges can be met.Focuses on the fruitful problems of Orientation and Commun | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This book is a philosophical introduction to the field of communication and media studies. In search of the philosophical backgrounds of that relatively young field, the book explores why this overwhelmingly popular discipline is in crisis. The book discusses classic introductions on communication, provides an update on lessons learned, and re-evaluates the work of pioneers in the light of up-to-date philosophical standards. It summarizes various debates surrounding the foundations of system theory and especially its applicability to the Social Sciences in general and to Communication Studies in particular..Communication schools promise their students an understanding of the source of a principal and dynamical power in their lives, a power shaping societies and identities, molding aspirations, and deciding their fates. They also promise students a practical benefit, a chance to learn the secret of controlling that dynamical power, improving a set of skills that would ensure thema critical edge in the future job market: become better media experts for all media. Yet no one seems to know how such promises are met. Can there be a general theory of communication? If not, what can (sho | 出版日期 | Book 2016 | 关键词 | Cybernetics; Extensionalism and Intensionalism; General Systems Theory, Criticism of; Information and C | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25625-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-79817-2 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-25625-2 | copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 |
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