For as long as the modern research university has been around, finding an ordering principle for knowledge acquisition has been one of its key goals. Though the difficulties in ordering knowledge go back to the times of Plato, the modern research university's establishment was expected to resolve them. And yet, centuries later, that ordering principle still eludes us. Instead, the patterns by which we collect and organize knowledge remain out of step with the circumstances that typify today's university environment. This article addresses the evolution and impact of that dissonance, using the field of communication as a prism through which to consider whether recognition of alternate modes of knowledge acquisition might be possible and, equally important, overdue.

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学科迷中的交流

自从现代研究型大学问世以来，找到知识获取的顺序原则一直是其主要目标之一。虽然订购知识的困难可以追溯到柏拉图时代，但现代研究型大学的建立有望解决这些问题。然而，几个世纪之后，这个排序原则仍然让我们望而却步。相反，我们收集和组织知识的模式仍然与当今大学环境的典型情况不一致。本文讨论了这种不和谐的演变和影响，使用传播领域作为棱镜，通过它来考虑是否可能识别替代的知识获取模式，同样重要的是，是否已经过时。