生态传播学的学科幻象——基于CNKI的实证研究

Academic Illusion in the Discipline of Ecology Communication—An Empirical Study Based on CNKI

以CNK I搜集到的186篇有关生态传播研究的论文为研究对象,发现该研究领域十分有限的研究成果既无体系化的理论,也无成熟的分析方法,仅仅是新闻传播理论的一个应用领域。但许多该领域的研究者却在呼吁建立一门新闻传播学的分支学科——生态传播学。这种在没有学科的内容之前就先规定学科的形式和边界的做法,在我国学界是相当常见的。这种观念通常基于某些研究主体两种不同意识的共同推动:其一是希望通过学科的建立来提升社会的重视;其二是通过界定学科边界的方式获得自己的资源和利益。不管哪种意识,其结果都是让生态传播研究陷入到内容空洞的学科幻象中。

Based on the systematic analysis of 186 academic theses regarding ecology communication studies on CNKI as the research object,this paper reveals that the research results are quite limited in communication ecology studies,lacking not only systematic theories but mature analytic methods,and this research field is no more than an application field of news and communication theories.Yet,so many researchers in this field are passionately appealing for establishing the discipline of ecology communication—a branch subject of news and communication studies.It is fairly common in China＇s academic circles that the form and boundary of a discipline often come first even before the discipline＇s content comes into being.Two kinds of motives of some researchers make contributions to this concept.Most important,they hope to enhance their social status via the establishment of this discipline.And then they could acquire resources and interests by defining the boundary of this discipline.No matter what kind of motive,the ecology communication studies would get lost in endless yet hollow academic illusion.