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1. Jounal: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences
Edisi 10 (2)/ 2014
Uncertainty Communication Status:
Theory or Science
Kentos R. Artoko
Abstract
In thisstudy,we argue infavor of the thesisthatcommunicationasan academic
disciplineface manyuncertainties.One of these isthe uncertaintyregardingthe status.
Some talkabout Communicationtheory,othersaboutthe CommunicationScience,
aboutCommunicology,"Sciencesde l'Informationetde laCommunication"(SIC),
Communicationstudiesetc.Nuclearquestionaboutthe statusof the communicationis:
the studyof communicationisatheoryor a science,isa weakcogitative systemora
strongcogitative system?We distinguishfive causesthatdeterminedcommunication
studyto remainto thisdaya weakcogitative system:the effervescence of the
theoretical-scientificandpractical researchesinaknowledge areafull of promises;
heavycoagulationof a cogitational communicationcommunity;refusal of the rule;
articulationof communicational thinkingas“weakthinking”- “weakthought”G.
Vattimo);andthe delayinthe developmentof the communicationontology.Discipline
that studiescommunicationisaweak-cogitative thinkingsystem,asumof theoriesbut
not yeta science.Asa setof weaktheories,the studyof communicationisbecoming
science.Inanycase, discipline thatstudiescommunicationisonthe wayto become a
science.
Keywords: communication ontology; uncertainty of communication; weak cogitative
system.