描述和可复制性:关于经验知识生产的对谈  

On Description and Replicability:A Conversation on the Production of Empirical Knowledge

作　　者：於红梅 潘忠党[2] YU Hongmei;PAN Zhongdang(Shanghai Documentary Academy,Shanghai University of Political Science and Law;the Department of Communication Arts,University of Wisconsin-Madison.)

机构地区：[1]上海政法学院上海纪录片学院 [2]美国威斯康星大学-麦迪逊校区传播艺术系

出　　处：《国际新闻界》2024年第8期151-176,共26页Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication

摘　　要：新闻传播学需要关注研究的可复制性危机。在这次对谈中,我们讨论了对现象的描述如何作为获取经验知识的基本手段,可复制性如何成为知识生产的认识论原则。在这个基础上,我们考察了2023年新闻传播学五大期刊发表的论文。结果显示,其中经验研究的可复制程度普遍不高,尤其是在人文取向的质化研究中。针对这些结果,我们展开了科学认识论的分析和解读,并据此提出了提升经验研究可复制性的具体建议,以求走向可相互检验、提升社会公信力的新闻传播学研究。Journalism and communication research needs to attend to the issue of research replicability.In this conversation,we discuss how description is a basic means for the acquisition of empirical knowledge and how replicability is a basic epistemological principle in the production of such knowledge.We then examine the papers published in the 5 top journalism and communication journals in 2023.The results show that,overall,the published empirical studies do not have a high level of replicability,especially the qualitative papers with a humanistic orientation.We analyze and interpret these results through the lens of scientific epistemology.Based on that,we offer some specific recommendations on how to improve the replicability of empirical research so that we can advance journalism and communication scholarship with an orientation toward mutual validation and improved credibility.

关 键 词：描述 可复制性 认知的反身性 知识生产 新闻传播学 

分 类 号：G206[文化科学—传播学]