摘要:

A number of organizational analysts have argued that we are in the midst of a paradigm shift, away from a strictly rational to a more transactional view of organization, but their arguments are not situated in a well‐explicated communication theory. This article argues for the existence of two, mutually exclusive worldviews of organization and communication, one heteronomous, the other autonomous. A beteronomous model views organization as responding to an environment, and communication as the exchange of information. An autonomous model assumes organization to be generative of its own structures, through a reflexive process of self‐production. The resulting “cell” of talk, in the autonomous model, is a conversation. Conversations are reflexive and self‐organizing: they are produced by communication but are in turn the frame, or envelope, of the communication that generated them, in the absence of which communication would be impossible. They are the Organization in the communication. The article explores, through the mechanism of speech acts, the reflexive properties of human conversation, and its capacities to generate those relational properties that we associate with organization. The phenomenon of coupling and its organizational implications are briefly explored. The article concludes by a brief consideration of how to revise our ideas about the conduct of communication

ISSN:1050-3293    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2885.1995.tb00096.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Three classes of anomalies are presented that call into question the adequacy of the cultivation hypothesis as currently formulated. The three classes center on the direction of the relationship between television exposure and world‐view, the linearity of the relationship, and the symmetry of the relationship. To account for these anomalies, a conceptual model of the process of world‐view construction from long‐term television exposure is presented. The motivation behind the model stems from the realization that cultivation takes place in a distinct temporal sequence. To accurately capture the implications of this sequence an ecologically valid view of the cultivation process must be developed. The model includes several classes of variables that encompass the entire temporal sequence involved in constructing world‐view from television exposure. These variables are theorized to interact with each other, and with television viewing, to differentially affect world view. Examples are provided to suggest ways in which the model cun be used to explain each of the anomalies. Finally, a strategy for using the model for future theorizing is di

ISSN:1050-3293    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2885.1995.tb00097.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This essay examines the extension of therapeutic discourse into daytime television talk shows (“Sally Jessy Raphael” and “Oprah Winfrey”), and argues that the programs are fueled by deep social tensions that provide both the substance of the talk and the object of the “ideological labor” of the talk show fom. Key elements of that labor are topical framing, synthetic personalizatton, and the use of therapeutic discourse that help organize (and thereby manage) social conflict into narratives of individual psychological d

ISSN:1050-3293    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2885.1995.tb00098.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Book reviewed in this article:Rethinking the Theory of Organizational Communication: How to Read an OrganizationJames R. Taylor AblexSocial Accountability in CommunicationRichard ButtnyVisual Literacy: Image, Mind, and RealityPaul Messaris

ISSN:1050-3293    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2885.1995.tb00099.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY