ABSTRACT

Models of Communication offers a timely reassessment of the significance of modelling in media and communication studies. From a rich variety of different perspectives, the collected essays explore the past, present, and future uses of communication models, in ordinary discourses concerning communication as well as in academic research.

This book challenges received views of communication models and opens up new paths of inquiry for communication research. By zooming in on the manifestations and purposes of modelling in ordinary discourses on communication as well as in theoretical expositions, the essays collected in this volume cast new light on the problems and prospects of models crafted for the benefit of communication inquiry. Complementing earlier studies of models of communication, the volume digs deep into fundamental epistemological and ontological questions concerning modelling in the communication disciplines; but it also presents several novel models that promise to be of practical use in empirical studies of media and communication.

The book is intended for communication scholars and students of media and will also be of interest for related disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences.

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

part 1|86 pages

Understanding Communication Models

chapter 5|14 pages

Turing Machines and Communication

Two Modelling Relations

chapter 6|17 pages

“A Convenient Way to Describe Communication …”

Towards the Transmission Model as a Metamodel

part 2|75 pages

Modelling the Histories and Institutions of Communication

chapter 7|16 pages

Writing a History of Communication Models

Modes of Historical Narrative

chapter 8|20 pages

The “Mediated Social Communication” Approach

An Early Discursive Mass Communication Model 1

chapter 9|19 pages

Rearticulating Carey

Cultural Institutionalism as a Model to Theorise Journalism in Time

part 3|64 pages

Ontological and Hermeneutic Probes

chapter 11|12 pages

Being as Communication

An Exploratory Model
Edited ByJohan Siebers

chapter 12|16 pages

Regimes of Communication

Emergent Processes, Historical Approaches

chapter 13|20 pages

A Metaphysical Model of Communication

With Examples from The Gold Rush

chapter 14|14 pages

Beyond Letters

Correspondence as a Negative Principle of Communication 1