The ritual view of communication examines how recurring symbolic practices sustain shared meanings, roles, and social order over time. It complements attention to message transmission by asking what participation enacts, including belonging, authority, and exclusion, rather than assuming that shared rituals are inherently beneficial.
- FamilyModel
- CategoryParadigms, Traditions & Metatheories
- DomainOrganization & Structure
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Paradigms, Traditions & Metatheories
Provides a broad intellectual perspective within which multiple concepts, theories or investigations are developed. Traditions carry histories and commitments; metatheories examine how theories themselves are organized or related.