The Communicative Construction of Reality

Hubert Knoblauch, "The Communicative Construction of Reality "
English | ISBN: 1138364657 | 2019 | 312 pages | EPUB | 910 KB
This volume advocates a shift from the social constructivism found in the work of Thomas Luckmann and Peter Berger, to a communicative constructivism that acknowledges communication as an embodied form of action in its own right, according to which social actors, in engaging in communicative action, construct a material social reality that guides, delimits, and enables actions. A study of the importance of understanding the role of communication in an age in which digitization and mediatization have extended the reach of communication to a global level and brought about the emergence of the communication society,