Conference: Contributions of the Communication Discipline to the Social and Behavioral Sciences, March 1-4, 2001, Tucson, AZ

在过去的50年里，通信学科一直在稳步发展。在理论发展和知识基础建设方面，它已经开始在其他社会科学学科中占有一席之地。然而，沟通作为一门学科并没有得到很好的理解。因此，它被纳入跨学科科学研究项目的速度很慢，尽管传播研究将提高这些项目的质量，在某些情况下，将被证明是影响研究结果的关键因素。为了向科学界和联邦资助机构通报传播研究对科学知识发展的价值，美国国家传播协会将发起一次工作会议，审查传播领域的重要科学发现，并制定一份文件，告知其他人传播对科学的价值。会议将于2001年3月1日至4日在亚利桑那州图森市举行，前期工作已于2000年11月9日至12日在华盛顿州西雅图市举行的全国通信协会年会上完成。利用亚利桑那大学的一个小组决策支持系统实验室将促进会议的工作。会议结束后，一两个人将把这项工作编辑成一篇论文，然后作为小册子印刷，以便广泛分发。

The communication discipline has grown at a steady pace over the past fifty years. It has begun to take its place among the other social science disciplines in terms of theory development and building a knowledge base. Communication as a discipline is not well understood, however. It has, therefore, been slow to be included in interdisciplinary science research projects, despite the fact that communication research would improve the quality of these projects and would, in some cases, prove to be a crucial element affecting the research results.To provide a means of informing the scientific community and federal funding agencies of the value of communication research to development of scientific knowledge, the National Communication Association will sponsor a working conference to review the significant scientific findings in communication and to develop a document that will inform others about the value of communication to science.The conference will be held March 1-4, 2001, in Tucson, Arizona, with preliminary work already completed at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, November 9-12, 2000, in Seattle, Washington. The work of the conference will be facilitated by the use of a Group Decision Support System laboratory at the University of Arizona. Following the meeting, one or two individuals will edit the work into a paper, which will then be printed as a booklet suitable for wide distribution.