【出版】Communication and the Public:2023年第1期

Communication and the Public 创刊于2016年春季，由浙江大学和SAGE联合出版，面向全球发行，是中国大陆新闻传播学科第一本真正同行评议的英文学术期刊。自创刊以来，本刊共举办七次“传播与公共”国际学术研讨会，在国内外学术界引起广泛关注。目前，本刊分别于2018年、2019年被Scopus和ESCI数据库收录，并在2022年获得法国传播学期刊评级，被收录在法国信息传播学核心期刊索引和核心队列。

Academic Dialogue

Global political economy, information technologies, and a people’s history of telecommunications:

A dialogue with Dan Schiller

—— Dan Schiller, Min Tang

Abstract

In this academic conversation, Professor Dan Schiller, a critical political economy scholar and historian of information and communications, first shares his up-to-date observation and analysis of developments and changes in contemporary digital capitalism. Professor Schiller then turns to his newly published book Crossed Wires: The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, From The Post Office To The internet (Oxford University Press, 2023) and details his 40-year journey of research and writing on the history of these vital and recurrently contested infrastructures.

在本次学术对话中，批判政治经济学学者、信息与传播史学家丹·席勒教授首先分享了他对当代数字资本主义发展变化的最新观察和分析。席勒教授随后转向他新出版的专著《Crossed Wires: The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, From The Post Office To The internet》（牛津大学出版社，2023 年），详细介绍了他 40 年来围绕这些至关重要且富有争议的基础设施所从事的历史研究与写作。

原文链接

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20570473231160594

Original Research Articles

The promotional regime of visibility: Ambivalence and contradiction in strategies of dominance and resistance

—— César Jiménez-Martínez, Lee Edwards

Abstract

In this article, we explore the tensions and blurred boundaries between dominance and resistance in promotional contexts by critically examining the notion of ‘visibility’, a commonly used yet largely unproblematised concept within the field of promotion. More specifically, we argue that contemporary promotional industries sustain and perpetuate a post-panoptical ‘regime of visibility’ underpinned by three modalities: (1) visibility as recognition, which associates being watched with empowerment while downplaying it as surveillance; (2) visibility as transient, which stresses visibility as a scarce resource that requires continuous work; and (3) and visibility as an end-goal, that is, as an end in itself rather than means to achieve something else. Acknowledging the existence of this regime opens up avenues for a productive analysis of the coexistence and mutual constitution of dominance and resistance within promotion in the digitalised communication environment, beyond debates about ‘authenticity’ or ‘woke washing’. We note that promotional industries structure visibility as a desirable and even inevitable requirement for both reinforcing and reconfiguring social arrangements. Consequently, they foster a mirage that celebrates the actions of individuals without actually producing meaningful change, while obscuring invisibility as an equally valid strategy of resistance.

在这篇文章中，我们通过批判性地研究“可见性”这个在营销领域中常用但很大程度上少有质疑的概念，探讨了营销环境中主导和抗拒之间的紧张关系和模糊边界。更具体地说，我们认为，当代营销产业维持并延续了一种后泛视的“可见性制度”，其基础是三种模式:(1)作为认可的可见性，将“被看见”与赋权联系起来，同时将其贬低为监视；(2)临时的可见性，强调可见性是一种需要持续努力付出的稀缺资源；和(3)作为一种最终目标的可见性，即作为目的本身，而不是实现其他目的的手段。承认这一机制的存在，为在数字化传播环境中，超越关于“真实性”或“唤醒洗涤”的争论，对营销领域中主导和抵抗的共存和互构的创新性分析开辟了道路。我们注意到，营销行业将知名度作为加强和重新配置社会安排的可取的甚至必要的要求。因此，他们营造出一种幻想，即一方面颂扬个人行动，却无法产生有意义的变化，同时模糊了隐身作为一种同样有效的抵抗策略。

原文链接

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20570473221146661

Original Research Articles

Climate communication: How researchers navigate between scientific truth and media publics

—— Donya Alinejad, José Van Dijck

Abstract

Recent attacks on scientific authority have intensified calls for climate scientists to seek out a more active stake in public engagement. Yet, today’s media landscape presents scientists with the challenge of gaining the epistemic trust of diverse audiences. This article qualitatively investigates how publicly engaged academic climate researchers imagine the public as they partake in various science communication practices. It finds that scientists’ strategies for securing public trust in their epistemic authority and defining their own public role vary with the media public they are addressing. Their communications reflect an oscillation between filling a “knowledge deficit” and communicating complex “truth tensions.”

最近对科学权威的攻击加大了要求气候科学家在公众沟通中发挥更大作用的呼声。 然而，当今的媒介环境给科学家们带来了获得不同受众的认知信任的挑战。本文通过质性研究分析了了参与各种科学传播实践的气候研究人员是如何想象公众的。研究发现，科学家为了确保公众对其认知权威的信任与定义自身公共角色所采取的策略，因他们所面对的媒体公众而异。他们的交流反映出一种在填补“知识缺陷”和传达复杂的“真相张力”之间摇摆不定。

原文链接

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20570473221138612

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