In search of the (Black) international: The Black Scholar and the challenge to communication and media studies

IF 4.7 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Communication Theory Pub Date : 2023-04-20 DOI:10.1093/ct/qtad001

Armond R. Towns

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Abstract

In the 1970s, the journal The Black Scholar (TBS) published two special issues largely under-read in communication studies, titled “Black Media I” and “Black Media II.” The lack of engagement in these special issues by communication scholars represents not merely disciplinary differences but it also signifies different trajectories that both fields take on Marxism. Communication studies would take Europe as its starting point, while Black studies would not dismiss Europe, but would take the Third World as its point of departure. In the process, media and communication analysis in TBS holds more critical potential than what currently exists in communication studies approaches to both Blackness and Marxism. Using a sociology of knowledge approach, I argue that the place to start a wholistic, Marxist, Black studies analysis of communication begins not in communication studies, but in Black studies, which TBS’s special issues are representative of.

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寻找(黑人)国际:黑人学者与传播与媒体研究的挑战

20世纪70年代，《黑人学者》（the Black Scholar，TBS）杂志发表了两期在传播学研究中阅读量很大的特刊，题为“黑人媒体I”和“黑人媒体II”。传播学学者对这些特刊的缺乏参与不仅代表了学科差异，也意味着这两个领域对马克思主义的不同轨迹。传播学研究将以欧洲为起点，而黑人研究不会忽视欧洲，而是以第三世界为起点。在这一过程中，TBS中的媒体和传播分析比目前黑人和马克思主义传播研究方法中存在的更具批判性的潜力。运用知识社会学的方法，我认为，对传播进行整体的、马克思主义的、黑人研究的分析不是从传播研究开始的，而是从黑人研究开始的。

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Communication Theory COMMUNICATION-

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期刊介绍： Communication Theory is an international forum publishing high quality, original research into the theoretical development of communication from across a wide array of disciplines, such as communication studies, sociology, psychology, political science, cultural and gender studies, philosophy, linguistics, and literature. A journal of the International Communication Association, Communication Theory especially welcomes work in the following areas of research, all of them components of ICA: Communication and Technology, Communication Law and Policy, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, Feminist Scholarship, Global Communication and Social Change, Health Communication, Information Systems, Instructional/Developmental Communication, Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Journalism Studies, Language and Social Interaction, Mass Communication, Organizational Communication, Philosophy of Communication, Political Communication, Popular Communication, Public Relations, Visual Communication Studies, Children, Adolescents and the Media, Communication History, Game Studies, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies, and Intergroup Communication. The journal aims to be inclusive in theoretical approaches insofar as these pertain to communication theory.