On Elemental Views from a Thought Experiment: The Marvelous Clouds

Abstract

Ongoing debates on designating the discipline of communication (Levy & Gurevitch, 1994) reach almost the same conclusion that communication studies as well as media studies are interdisciplinary studies. Although there is a fruitful convergence among disciplines in the realm of communication, not every field is on the stage in order to establish a connection. Studying communication sciences and philosophy together, for instance, is still quite a rarity. If “we must build linkages between communication and other intellectual disciplines” (Shoemaker, 1994, p. 391), we should start thinking differently.