

在技术变革、社会需求和国家政策的三重推动下,新闻传播学学科边界在渐次扩大——从以文史哲为主的人文学科,逐渐向社会学科延伸,再向理工学科扩展。学科边界是一个学科区别于其他学科的分界线,在学科边界嬗变的过程中,新闻传播学学科在不断吸纳其他学科精髓中完成了自身的蜕变,但面临着学科本位与跨界融合如何平衡的问题。智媒时代新闻传播学学科边界的重构,需要在坚守学科核心价值的基础上拥抱变革和守正创新,平衡技术与人文之间的关系,构建中国特色新闻传播学学科体系,促使新闻传播学在新文科的浪潮中实现从边界守卫者到知识联结者的范式跃迁。
From Traditional to New Liberal Arts: A Study on the Evolution of The Disciplinary Boundaries of Journalism and Communication Studies
Zhou Maojun, Luo Dan
(Wuhan University)
Abstract Driven jointly by technological transformation, social demands and national policies, the disciplinary boundaries of journalism and communication studies, a humanities discipline originally rooted in literature, history and philosophy, have been gradually extended to social sciences, and further to science and engineering. Since the boundaries of a discipline serve as the demarcation line that distinguishes one from another, journalism and communication studies, having achieved self-transformation by constantly absorbing the essence of other disciplines, is confronted with the challenge of striking a balance between disciplinary rootedness and interdisciplinary integration. To reconstruct its disciplinary boundaries in the era of intelligent media, journalism and communication studies must embrace transformation and break new ground while upholding core disciplinary values, reconcile technological advancement with humanistic concerns, and build a disciplinary system of journalism and communication studies with Chinese characteristics. These efforts will facilitate its paradigm shift from boundary defender to a knowledge connector in the wave of New Liberal Arts initiative.
Key words journalism and communication studies; disciplinary boundaries; new liberal arts
■ 作者简介 周茂君,武汉大学新闻与传播学院教授,湖北 武汉 430072;罗丹,武汉大学新闻与传播学院博士研究生。