Phenomenology
Experience, Reality, and Interpretation
in Communication
Distinguished Professor Jim Macnam
School of Communication, Faculty of Arts & Social
Visiting Professor, London School of Economics &
,Traditions of
communicati
theory
• Rhetorical
• Systems theory/cy
• Sociopsychologica
• Semiotic
• Phenomenological
• Sociocultural
• Critical
, Human communication stu
Science • “polyphonic” positioning at the
“crossroads” of various disciplines
including psychology, sociology, me
Art studies, and political science
(Waisbord, 2019, pp. 3, 17)
• Multidisciplinary
Theory
• Looking beyond “Balkanized” states
scholarship to explore the “wonderfu
Practice jumbled landscape of communicatio
studies” (Waisbord, pp. 11, 21)
• Referring to communication studies
post-discipline
Experience, Reality, and Interpretation
in Communication
Distinguished Professor Jim Macnam
School of Communication, Faculty of Arts & Social
Visiting Professor, London School of Economics &
,Traditions of
communicati
theory
• Rhetorical
• Systems theory/cy
• Sociopsychologica
• Semiotic
• Phenomenological
• Sociocultural
• Critical
, Human communication stu
Science • “polyphonic” positioning at the
“crossroads” of various disciplines
including psychology, sociology, me
Art studies, and political science
(Waisbord, 2019, pp. 3, 17)
• Multidisciplinary
Theory
• Looking beyond “Balkanized” states
scholarship to explore the “wonderfu
Practice jumbled landscape of communicatio
studies” (Waisbord, pp. 11, 21)
• Referring to communication studies
post-discipline
