Data di Pubblicazione:
2020
Citazione:
Contro il comunicazionismo. Per una critica del riduzionismo comunicativo / M. Barisione. - In: COMUNICAZIONE POLITICA. - ISSN 1972-5094. - 21:3(2020 Dec), pp. 347-370. [10.3270/98798]
Abstract:
AGAINST COMMUNICATIONISM. FOR A CRITIQUE OF COMMUNICATIVE REDUCTIONISM
This article aims to criticise an approach to the study of political communication – «communicationism
» – which tends to reduce social reality to the sphere of communication, isolating
the latter from other fundamental dimensions of the political and social world. This form
of communicative reductionism is based on a series of implicit epistemological assumptions
that are potentially misleading, at least from the point of view of the social sciences,
because they tend to generate theoretically simplistic and methodologically non-rigorous
studies. These assumptions, which this article will try to disclose and critically reconsider,
concern the extent to which any social definition of the situation, as well as any construction
of the social/political reality, can be considered a «symbolic» matter of communication;
the presumed importance of communication as a communicative act, irrespective of the
social and political space in which it takes place; the seemingly unconditional power of
communicative agency; and the idea that the effects of social and political communications
have a «universal anthropological» nature. Throughout the article, a different, more «realist»
theoretical approach will be defended, one which points to the social conditionality of the
importance of the sphere of communication and of its political consequences.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Elenco autori:
M. Barisione
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