Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

12 p.

Publication Date

2008

Source Publication

Asian Communication Research Journal

Abstract

This essay draws on Raymond Williams's concept of a knowable community in an effort to understand the myriad of connections that exist between individuals and society. Williams, who sees communication and community as synonymous, suggests that a knowable community may ultimately emerge through the process of communication and that in the discovery of connections between individuals and society, an understanding of historically specific patterns may be shown. This essay also discusses an oral history project with journalists who worked for Gannett in the 1960s as an example of an emerging knowable community that questioned traditional notions of community and challenged dominant ideological constructions of media history.

Comments

Published version. Asian Communication Research Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2008): 31-42. © 2008 Asian Communication Research Journal. Permalink.

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