‘Paris with snakes’? The future of communication is/as ‘Cultural Science’
dc.contributor.author | Hartley, John | |
dc.contributor.author | Potts, J. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-30T12:34:52Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-30T12:34:52Z | |
dc.date.created | 2016-12-22T19:30:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Hartley, J. and Potts, J. 2016. ‘Paris with snakes’? The future of communication is/as ‘Cultural Science’. International Communication Gazette. 78 (7): pp. 627-635. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22996 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/1748048516655712 | |
dc.description.abstract |
What if communication has been pursuing the wrong kind of science? This article argues that the physics-based or ‘transmission’ model derived from Claude Shannon and criticised by James Carey does not explain how communication works. We argue instead for a model derived from the evolutionary and complexity sciences. Here, communication is based on dynamic systems of meaning (not individual ‘particles’ of information), and relations among knowledge-producing agents in culture-made groups. We call this sign-based evolutionary and systems model of communication ‘cultural science’ (Hartley and Potts, 2014), and invite communication scholars to assist in its development as a ‘modern synthesis’ for communication, along the lines of Huxley’s synthesis of botany and zoology as evolutionary bioscience. | |
dc.title | ‘Paris with snakes’? The future of communication is/as ‘Cultural Science’ | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dcterms.source.volume | 78 | |
dcterms.source.number | 7 | |
dcterms.source.startPage | 627 | |
dcterms.source.endPage | 635 | |
dcterms.source.issn | 1748-0485 | |
dcterms.source.title | International Communication Gazette | |
curtin.department | Department of Internet Studies | |
curtin.accessStatus | Open access |