Communication as mediated sharing: a rejoinder to Peters
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The interactive nature of communication and the tendency to view it as mediated sharing are examined. Communication may be distorted by society since communication comes from the self, which is constituted socially. Communication is thus unable to bridge gaps sometimes since, although it aims at fullness of sharing, it is inevitably affected by human situations. However, incomplete sharing is still sharing that is made possible by bridging gaps among communicators. This proves that one can know what the other has in mind through communication.
Publication Name: Critical Studies in Mass Communication
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0739-3180
Year: 1996
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Sharing of thoughts or recognizing otherness? Reply to Logue and Miller
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The dominant view that holds that communication involves the sharing of thoughts and intentions is questioned. This belief that communication is a form of mental sharing fails to consider the abysses and chasms in the self, the other, and modern life. Despite countless exchanges of words between and among people daily, thoughts or intentions are never exchanged. Communication is thus a method that is used by humans to cope with the impossibility of experiencing another person's experience.
Publication Name: Critical Studies in Mass Communication
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0739-3180
Year: 1996
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Clouding the issues? The ideal and the material in human communication
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Dana L. Cloud's stand on social formations has constituted the ideals of freedom and equality which can be manifested in the academy and in the mass media. Such abstract ideals lacked apriori meaning although they are found in human discourses at defined social formations. Two prime material barriers between these ideals in the material realities are identified, focusing on the concept of 'economic equality.'
Publication Name: Critical Studies in Mass Communication
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0739-3180
Year: 1997
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