Toward a Critique of the Message Construct in Communication
Description:
The idea of an inherent structure of meaning in human communication is identified as the message construct. Traces of the construct in textbook models of the basic communication process and in popular magazine images of communication are examined. The argument is raised that objectifying the message has resulted in a paradigm which focuses disproportionately on explicit, representational, and instrumental aspects of communication. An alternative conception is proposed which would take into acco…
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Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Wilson, John K. (John Kenneth)
Partner:
UNT Libraries