文章回顾了1949年以来中国传播学发展中存在的几个主要问题。一是中国特殊的“传播学”概念与普通的“传播研究”之间的差异及其形成原因。二是中国1978年引进传播学时,全球冷战的背景起到了重要的作用,西方的“现代化理论”是为了遏制共产主义,而中国的“现代化”则是为了维护社会主义制度,但是去政治化的“现代化”概念促进了传播学的引进,这一点常被研究者所忽略。三是中国传播学的学术自觉和本土化经历了一个渐进的过程,目前正处于学术创新的关键突破期。四是媒介技术影响了中国传播学的社会网络的性质,形成了三种不同类型的学术交往模式与生产模式。最后是技术还深刻地影响了今天中国传播研究的范式与对象。

The article reviews several major issues of the development of Chinese communication since 1949. The first is the difference between the unique conception of ″communicatology″ (Chuanboxue) in China and the general conception of ″communication research″, and how this distinction came into being. The second is the role played by the global cold war when communication research was introduced to China in 1978. As was often ignored by most researchers, the aim of ″modernization theory″ in the western world is to detain the communism, while the aim of ″modernization″ in China is to sustain the socialism, but the depoliticalized conception of ″modernization″ facilitated the acceptation of communication research in China. The third is that the academic consciousness and indigenization of communication in China underwent a progressive process and are currently in the critical breakthrough period of academic innovation. The fourth is that the media technology shaped the social network of communication research in China, which led to three types of academic interaction and production. Finally, the media technology has fundamentally influenced the paradigms and objects of today′s Chinese communication studies.