ABSTRACT

This paper presents an empirically grounded conceptual framework for the various dimensions of scholar-activism based on 15 in-depth interviews with prominent communication scholar-activists. It theorizes about the meanings, practices, challenges, and opportunities encompassed by this type of scholarship from the perspective of those in the field. Our participants see scholar-activism as a fluid concept that comprises a range of goals, methods, and activities. They view scholar-activism as distinct from overlapping terms such as engaged scholarship, public scholarship, critical communication, participatory action research, and community organizing. Despite differences in labels, there is a relatively unified sense of the practices, challenges, and opportunities related to scholar-activism. The main dimensions of communication scholar-activism that emerge from the data are that it is: community-driven, social justice-oriented, action-oriented, grounded in co-creation of knowledge, interdisciplinary, long term in nature, challenging of the status quo, driven by intrinsic motivators, and boundary-blurring.

摘要

本文基于对著名传播学者活动家的 15 次深入采访，为学者活动的各个维度提出了一个以经验为基础的概念框架。它从该领域的人的角度对此类奖学金所包含的意义、实践、挑战和机遇进行了理论化。我们的参与者将学者行动主义视为一个流动的概念，包括一系列目标、方法和活动。他们认为学者行动主义与诸如参与奖学金、公共奖学金、批判性交流、参与式行动研究和社区组织等重叠术语不同。尽管标签不同，但对与学者行动主义相关的实践、挑战和机遇有一个相对统一的认识。