Writing can make statements persistent and comparable without automatically producing rationality. Treating literacy as an intellectual ranking ignores oral reasoning and uncritical textual practice. The corrective distinction is between the affordances of a medium and the capacities or actual judgments of the people using it.
- FamilyModel
- Category of its source unitTheories & Explanatory Models
- DomainMedia, Publics & Society
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
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.