英国のカルチュラル・スタディズにおける「批判性」再考 : ポスト・モダンの批判的コミュニケーション理論か?

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• Recently in communication studies, what is called revisionism has gained more and more attention. Revisionism has its origins both in the Marxism oriented critical approach (especialy in the tradition of Cultural Studies) and the liberal-pluralistic oriented approach (the tradition of administrative research in the U. S.) of mass-communication. Thus several commentators have mentioned that the revisionsism of mass-communication studies recently shows the change of theoretical trend. They point to the 'theoretical convergence' in contrast to the theoretical polarization between critical and traditional approach during the 1970's. In this article, I try to do a critical survey of that opinion. In my view there are two problems behind the 'theoretical tonvergence' theses. First, these days 'theoretical convergence' is discussed only at the 'fact' level, not at the 'value' level. Second, in this process of discussion about the theoretical trend change, the importance of 'value' level of mass-communication studies is relatjvely ignored. However, it is such a 'value' level that makes critical approach of communication studies truely critical. Consequently it can be said that the recent change in theoretical trend is a kind of cirisis for critical theory of mass-communication. For critital theory to survive under what is called post-modern condition, we needed to discuss communication theory at the 'value' level. I try to make this point clear by following the theory and its social-historical context of Cultural Studies approach to mass-communication. The Cultulal Studies, which orients past-modern critical theory, certainly has critical potential under the modern condition. But contrary to its original intention, it can be affirmative under what is called post-modern condition. Such a danger is bigger in Japanese context than in English context where the Cultural Studies were born. If we try to make a critical theory of communication that can be critical toward the condition of contemporary Japanese society, we must be sensitive to an ambivalence of Cultural Studies (especialy its revisionist version). Otherwise, we will take the risk of losing the critical potential of Cultural Studies, and far from being critical, we will only be affirmative to objects that we try to criticise.

• 日本マス・コミュニケーション学会の論文
• 1991-04-30

著者

• 阿部 潔

  東京大学

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