Communication and Public Opinion Plus Ça Change
Communication and Public Opinion Plus Ça Change
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沟通和舆论加上 Ça 变化
DOI：
10.1093/poq/nfr052
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Lori Young
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作者：
Diana C. Mutz;Lori Young
在过去，现在和未来的研究中，一直坚持在整个传播和舆论的研究历史的三个中心主题进行检查。这些主题包括：（1）围绕传播环境的政治多样性的持续关注;（2）对政治传播的选择性接触;（3）大众政治传播与人际政治传播之间的相互关系。我们探讨了这些主题的重要性，重点是技术变革如何使它们（如果有的话）在今天比它们最初被确定为学科的核心问题时更具相关性。要说自1987年《民意季刊》上一期周年纪念刊以来，通信技术发生了巨大变化，这是显而易见的。但是，技术变革本身并不一定决定学术关注点的变化。在这篇文章中，我们认为，许多相同的主题，伊莱休·卡茨确定在50周年的PublicOpinionQuarterly-这本身是从最早的研究沟通和舆论在20世纪40年代和50年代-是相关的今天。在这篇文章中，我们回顾了三个主要的主题，从过去的沟通和舆论的研究，在现在和可能的未来。首先，学术活动反映了对传播环境的政治多样性的持续兴趣。信息环境在多大程度上接近思想市场的民主理想？在这种情况下，研究问题在很大程度上是一个描述性的问题，询问在何种程度上的状态，通信环境是一个人希望它是。除了多样性之外，还有两个主题直接来自最早的经验主义。
Three central themes that have persisted throughout the history of research on communication and public opinion are examined in light of past, present, and future research. These themes include (1) ongoing concerns surrounding the political diversity of the communica- tion environment; (2) selective exposure to political communication; and (3) the interrelationship between mass and interpersonal political commu- nication. We explore the importance of these themes with an emphasis on how technological changes have made them, if anything, more relevant today than they were when first identified as central concerns of the discipline. To say that communication technology has changed dramatically since the last Public Opinion Quarterly anniversary issue in 1987 is to state the obvious. But technological change alone does not necessarily dictate changes in the locus of scholarly concern. In this article, we suggest that many of the same themes that Elihu Katz identified on the 50th anniversary ofPublicOpinionQuarterly— which were themselves drawn from the earliest studies of communication and public opinion in the 1940s and 1950s—are as relevant today as ever. In this article, we review three major themes that connect studies of communication and public opinion from the past to those in the present and likely future. First, scholarly activity reflects an ongoing interest in the political diversity of the communication environment. To what extent does the information environ- ment approximate the democratic ideal of a marketplace of ideas? In this case, the research question is largely a descriptive one, asking to what extent the state of the communication environment is as one would like it to be. Beyond diversity, two additional themes follow directly from the earliest empirical