人本主义范式的兴起:论传播学的科学革命(上)

Rise of a Humanistic Paradigm:Scientific Revolution of Mass Communication(Ⅰ)

由于信息社会的来临,传播学被要求更多地关注人的主体性;而由于经验主义在假设和方法上存在一系列缺陷,传播学无法解决时代课题而不得不进行结构性调整。面对时代背景和学科背景的双重要求,传播学正在进行范式更替,人本主义范式已经浮出水面。但眼下的人本主义思潮并不是十全十美的,甚至可以说它根本就不是一种成熟和系统的理论。因此人本主义范式必须以"信息人"为研究核心,对传播学的合理成分进行重新整合。

The advent of an information society urges mass communication to pay more attention to the subjectivity of human beings.As the result of a series of hypothetical and methodological defects in empiricism,communication has to adjust itself structurally owing to its incompetence of resolving contemporary issues.Faced with the double requirements of historic and disciplinary development,it is undergoing a shift of paradigms to a humanistic one.However,the current humanistic trend of thoughts is not a mature and...