Since his death in January 2021, much has been written about Jay Blumler as a pioneer of political communication studies; a brilliant scholar who was responsible for producing path-setting research; an exceptionally generous teacher and mentor; and a thoroughly decent human being. Running through these numerous tributes to Jay was not only a sense of mourning for a lost voice but a desire to honour and uphold a particular quality within the academy. We might call this quality normative commitment: a sense that values matter and that without their framing impetus research is vulnerable to aridity and irrelevance. From his earliest years as a political theorist at Ruskin College in the 1950s and throughout his half-century-long engagement with political communication which began when he joined the University of Leeds in 1963, Blumler’s writing and speaking were infused with normative energy. For him, discussion of terms like politics, citizenship, democracy and communication can have little meaning unless their normative dimensions are acknowledged:

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Jay G. Blumler – 知识遗产：想要更好

自 2021 年 1 月去世以来，关于杰·布鲁姆勒作为政治传播研究先驱的文章已经很多。一位杰出的学者，负责开展开创性研究；一位非常慷慨的老师和导师；和一个完全体面的人。通过这些对杰伊的众多致敬，不仅是对失去声音的哀悼，而且是对尊重和维护学院内特定品质的渴望。我们可以将这种质量规范性承诺称为：价值观很重要，如果没有它们的框架推动力，研究很容易受到枯燥和无关紧要的影响。从 1950 年代他在拉斯金学院担任政治理论家的最初几年，到 1963 年他加入利兹大学开始的长达半个世纪的政治传播工作，布鲁姆勒的写作和演讲充满了规范的能量。对他而言，除非承认其规范维度，否则对政治、公民身份、民主和交流等术语的讨论几乎没有意义：