The behavioral transmission view of communication became exhausted and academic by the 1970s
Evidence
The transmission view of communication has dominated American thought since the 1920s. When I first came into this field I felt that this view of communication, expressed in behavioral and functional terms, was exhausted. It had become academic: a repetition of past achievement, a demonstration of the indubitable. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 177
Categorization
- SEED: An essay angle: what ‘exhausted academic paradigms’ look like — repetition of past achievement passing as rigor.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 177
- XREF: connects to: The transmission view defines communication as sending messages across distance for control — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 150; The transmission view of communication derives from nineteenth-century transport metaphors — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 244; Chronic interest in communication signals a derangement of its models — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 222 (+6 more)
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- The transmission view defines communication as sending messages across distance for control (similarity 0.84)
- Chronic interest in communication signals a derangement of its models (similarity 0.81)
- Mass media resists the theoretical models that work for interpersonal communication (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Mass media research persists in behaviorism despite knowing media are not behavioral inputs
#qualifies(0.60) - The transmission view of communication derives from nineteenth-century transport metaphors
#expands(0.50) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 244 - Chronic interest in communication signals a derangement of its models
#complicates(0.40) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 222 - Instrumentalizing communication has destroyed our sense of truth itself
#complicates(0.35) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 378 - Instrumentalized communication destroys the possibility of shared truth
#complicates(0.35) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 378 - Communication does not report reality but inverts the reported relation to it
#responds-to(0.30) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 187 - Treating abuse transmission as inevitable was empirically wrong and actively harmful
#exemplifies(0.30) — , The Rod and the Child, 6954