The Social Construction of Communication Studies: Notes on the Field as an Ongoing Social Project

• In Event: Theoretical and Conceptual Issues in Social Construction and Research

Abstract

This paper argues the constructedness of the field of communication studies. Examining a number of essays that attempt to define and characterize the field, I show how these essays themselves are examples of social construction of an academic field throught he use of communication in scholarly journals.

Author

• David Penyak, Villanova University