The great communications scholar James Hay has assumed editorship of the journal Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies this year, and I am very grateful to have been invited to contribute a short piece on the core concepts around which the journal is organized. My contributions (provided here gratis, libre, and DRM-free) are about the terms “communication” and “critical”:
“Communication,” “Critical.”
Abstract
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.Immanuel Kant (Photo Credit: Wikipedia)
Harold Innis (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Photo credit: Wikipedia)