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THE STATUS OF COMMUNICATION AS A DISCIPLINE IN THE U.S.: HISTORICAL INSIGHTS AND CURRENT STATUS

William F. Eadie San Diego State University

Communication Became a U. S. Academic Discipline Around 1982

AEJ became AEJMC

Communication departments formed

Three Histories of U. S. Communication Study

Journalism

Three Histories of U. S. Communication Study

Speech

Three Histories of U. S. Communication Study

Communication

Three Lens For Looking at Each History

Biographical

Three Lens For Looking at Each History

Intellectual

Three Lens For Looking at Each History

Political

Historical Lines of Communication Scholarship

Shaper of Public Opinion

Historical Lines of Communication Scholarship

Language Use

Historical Lines of Communication Scholarship

Information Transmission

Historical Lines of Communication Scholarship

Developer of Relationships

Historical Lines of Communication Scholarship

Definer, Interpreter, and Critic of Culture

The Source of this Scholarship

When Communication Became a Discipline

an in-progress book discussing the period between 1964 and 1982, when other academic disciplines in the U. S. “gave up” on communication scholarship and speech and journalism professors made it a central part of their work, adding “communication” to their departmental identities in the process.

For further information, contact me at

weadie@mail.sdsu.edu