传播学研究的自主性反思

An Autonomy Reflection on Communication Research

在工具理性、技术理性彰显的时代,人文学科和社会科学研究一直处于一种相对贫困之境,学术自主性不足,学术研究的空间也往往受到越来越多的其他力量的牵制。而作为学术场域边缘之传播学更因为长期没有获得知识界的认同,而显得尤为焦虑,相关的学术反思活动也没有停止过。传播学理论的建构是一种复杂的社会关系网络力量作用的结果,制约性的力量既有来自政治和经济权力的规训与诱惑,也来自学术场域日益严重的官僚做派以及学术场域内位置与权力之争,甚至还有其他学科的冷遇与抵制。长期的边缘学术地位,使得传播学研究的自主性受到严重挫伤。要走出危机,就必须进行自主性的反思,打破学科壁垒、重视概念再造、注重学科交叉、直面人类的困境与苦难,努力从人文关怀的角度去揭示和建构知识统一的理论体系。

Abstract： In the era of highlighted instrumental rationality and technological rationality, the research of the humanities and social sciences has been in a relatively indigent situation with a lack of academic autonomy, and the space of academic research also tends to be hampered by more and more other forces. Communication as a marginal field of study seems particularly anxious because its identity has long been unacknowledged by the academia, thus the relevant academic rethinking has never stopped. The construction of communication theories is a consequence of the interactions among complex social network forces. The constraints not only come from the disciplines and temptations of political and economic power, but also from the growing bureaucracy and the struggles of position and power in the academic field, and even from the resistance and disesteem of other disciplines. The long-term marginal academic status dampens the autonomy of communication research gravely. To step out of the crisis, scholars must carry out autonomy reflections, break the barriers between disciplines, pay attention to the reconstruction of concepts, face directly the plight and suffering of the human society, and strive to reveal and construct knowledge-consistent theoretical systems with humanistic solicitude.