Dervin et al. (2001, May): Freedom is Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose

FREEDOM IS ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE:
ON THE INEXTRICABLE NECESSITY OF THEORIZING <----> PHILOSOPHIZING IN
DISCIPLINING COMMUNICATION POLICY/ PRACTICE

Brenda Dervin
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA
dervin.1@osu.edu

Lois Foreman-Wernet
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA
lforeman@capital.edu

Susan Curry Jansen
Muhlenberg College
Allentown, PA, USA
jansen@hal.muhlberg.edu

David J. Schaefer
Franciscan University of Steubenville
Steubenville, OH, USA
dschaefe@franciscan.edu

and

Peter Shields
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH, USA
pshield@bgnet.bgsu.edu

CITATION AND COPYRIGHT INFORMATION:
Cite as: Dervin, B., Foreman-Wernet, L., Jansen, S. C., Schaefer, D., & Shields, P. (2001, May). Freedom is another word for nothing left to lose: On the inextricable necessity of theorizing <----> philosophizing in disciplining communication policy/practice. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Washington, DC.
© Brenda Dervin, Lois Foreman-Wernet, Susan Curry Jansen, David Schaefer, & Peter Shields (2001).

ABSTRACT:
This paper uses a number of dialogic procedures to allow the five authors to surround a common focus: the relationship between theory/ philosophy and the shaping of policy and practice. A few central agreements are shared: (a) that even though communication is often offered as the ameliorative force serving justice and democracy, in actuality communication policies and practices both informal and formal rarely do; (b) that communication might do otherwise if reinvented, redesigned and newly imagined; (c) that this requires that communication itself must be an object of deeply theoretical and philosophical attention; and (d) it also requires a willingness to tarry with the possibility that there is freedom to be gained from a new kind of control. Beyond this brief statement of agreement between the five co-authors of this paper, the remainder of the text was formatted as a dialogue in order to allow the authors to surround the topic without homogenizing their views. In this way, the authors aimed to illustrate by example some of the very points made in the paper.

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FREEDOM IS ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE: ON THE INEXTRICABLE NECESSITY OF THEORIZING <----> PHILOSOPHIZING IN DISCIPLINING COMMUNICATION POLICY/ PRACTICE

FREEDOM IS ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE:
ON THE INEXTRICABLE NECESSITY OF THEORIZING <----> PHILOSOPHIZING IN
DISCIPLINING COMMUNICATION POLICY/ PRACTICE