ABSTRACT This special issue of Review of Communication presents new offerings of the study of communication, forging present and future humanities. This Introduction engages the six essays in this special issue—which extend and intersect across categories of the humanistic study of communication: communication philosophy and ethics, rhetorical theory, history, pedagogy, criticism, and digital humanities—to explore their contributions in defense of the humanities. Taken together, these essays explore the study of communication as (1) a resource for inquiring and exchanging with concepts, practices, and embodiments of difference, the other, and the posthuman; (2) a means of examining the ontological, epistemological, technological, existential, performative, and ethical implications of our communicative being, our being constituted by symbolic action and mediated exchange in ever-present yet always variant material and affective environments, spaces, and places; (3) a discipline emerging from rhetoric, one of the original liberal arts, yet developing in transdisciplinary ways, transforming the binary of humanities and sciences; (4) a tool for decolonizing knowledge(s); (5) a tool for exploring, critiquing, engaging, and creating with the new media of our digital lives together; (6) a long-standing yet ever inventive method and mode for public humanities; and (7) a praxis of resistance. These essays bring to light what studying communication offers the humanities: a plural, public, reflexive, and ever inventive enterprise for examining being human together on this planet.

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对人文学科：传播研究有什么用？

摘要本期《传播评论》特刊介绍了传播研究的新成果，锻造了当今和未来的人文学科。本引言涉及本期的六篇论文，它们在传播学的人文主义研究类别中进行了扩展和相交：传播哲学和伦理学，修辞理论，历史，教育学，批评和数字人文科学，以探讨它们在捍卫传播学方面的贡献。人文。综上所述，这些论文将对传播学的研究视为：（1）一种资源，用于探究和交流概念，实践以及差异，另一个和后人类的体现；（2）一种检查我们交际存在的本体论，认识论，技术，存在，执行和伦理含义的方法，我们是由象征性的行动和媒介交流构成的，这种媒介是在永远存在但总是变化的物质和情感环境，空间和地方中进行的；（3）起源于修辞学的一门学科，它是原始的人文学科之一，但是却以跨学科的方式发展，改变了人文与科学的二元论；（4）非殖民化知识的工具；（5）一种工具，用于一起探索，批判，参与和创造我们数字生活的新媒体；（6）长期以来对公众人文科学有创造力的方法和模式；（七）抵抗实践。这些论文揭示了研究传播提供了哪些人文科学：一个多元化的，公开的，反思性的和有创造力的企业，旨在共同研究这个星球上的人类。