Approaching evolutionary communication

IF 4.7 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Communication Theory Pub Date : 2022-09-21 DOI:10.1093/ct/qtac017

J. Lull

引用次数: 1

Abstract

The determining roles played by communication in the ongoing evolution of our species remain largely unexplored in communications-related disciplines. An unhelpful controversy that raged over E. O. Wilson’s sociobiology last century contributed to the problem and is reconsidered here in terms of the fault lines that run between natural science, social science, and politics. The article describes paths for future theoretical development by focusing first on the link between human communications behavior and evolutionary psychology. With an emphasis on understanding the crisis of community facing the world today, evolutionary communication is proposed as a theoretical alternative to limited proximate perspectives afforded by cultural analysis alone. The inherent interdisciplinary nature of communication makes the field a prime candidate for conducting research grounded in the deep-time explanatory framework of evolutionary theory and the epistemological assumptions of scientific humanism.

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接近进化传播

通信在我们物种正在进行的进化中所起的决定性作用，在通信相关学科中基本上尚未得到探索。上个世纪，E.O.Wilson的社会生物学引发了一场毫无帮助的争论，这场争论促成了这个问题，并在这里从自然科学、社会科学和政治之间的断层线的角度进行了重新思考。本文首先关注人类交流行为和进化心理学之间的联系，描述了未来理论发展的道路。在强调理解当今世界面临的社区危机的情况下，进化传播被认为是一种理论上的替代方案，可以取代仅由文化分析提供的有限的直接视角。传播学固有的跨学科性质使该领域成为基于进化论的深层时间解释框架和科学人文主义的认识论假设进行研究的主要候选者。

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Communication Theory COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.00

自引率

2.70%

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