"The future is not what it used to be": gender, history, and communication studies

Article Abstract:

Communication research has always been less concerned with history. However, complex communication processes cannot be explained without understanding history. Communication should be viewed as situated knowledge. Feminist studies, for instance, cannot advance if it has no basis for analyzing gendered patterns of communication. Such patterns should be incorporated in communication research. To be able to accomplish this, communication reserchers must refer to the history of women's movement. Thus, history is also crucial to the development of communication research.

Women's studies

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Friendship and communication: a reply to Fitzpatrick (and Rawlins)

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M.A. Fitzpatrick has maintained that the communication discipline must be founded on observational studies of actual communication practice. While it is true that conversational data can be considered in the evaluation of research findings, informant-based reports are more appropriate in analyzing social behavior. However, in the study of the relationship between friendship and communication, communication problems and functions should not be seen as outcomes of the developmental stages.

Interpersonal communication, Interpersonal relations

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