The History of Media and Communication Research: Contested Memories

摘要

Anthropologists have come to recognize that information on cultural practices of a given society may be most fruitfully gleaned from the society's misfits and deviants, for such individuals have the keenest knowledge and eye for contradiction because they know exactly where they do not fit in. A similar dynamic may be in play when charting the intellectual history of a discipline, with sufficient time and a safe institutional remove providing the historian with ways of seeing that escape the everyday practices of a scholarly community.