ABSTRACT

This paper responds to the three articles in this edition of Communication Research and Practice, by Gerard Goggin, Lelia Green, Colleen Mills and Claire Burlat, which together formed the Australia New Zealand Communication Association 40th Anniversary panel contribution to the 2020 International Communication Association Annual Conference. The contributors to that panel were invited to explore ways in which we might future-proof the academy-societal interface, and to consider which principles and practices might nurture meaningful and sustained academic-public knowledge exchange. The panellists’ brought three very different lenses to reflect on and consider what we know about and how we might contribute to an improved academy-society interface in the communication disciplines. In responding to each of these papers I focus on their key messages and extend the scope of each contribution by, respectively, adding what we know about the New Zealand context, reflecting on the ways that individuals can contribute to how academic thought is communicated in society, and asking if for-profit corporations are likely to communicate knowledge in ways that are genuinely designed to enhance environmental sustainability and reduce the consumption of their products.

摘要

本文回应了Gerard Goggin，Lelia Green，Colleen Mills和Claire Burlat在本版《传播研究与实践》中发表的三篇文章，它们共同构成了澳大利亚新西兰传播协会40周年小组对2020国际传播协会年会的贡献。该小组的参与者被邀请探讨我们未来可以证明学术与社会互动的方式，并考虑哪些原则和实践可以促进有意义的，持续的学术-公共知识交流。小组成员带来了三个截然不同的视角，以反思和考虑我们所了解的知识，以及我们如何为改善交流学科中的学术社会互动做出贡献。