Abstract
Provocative, substantive criticism stimulates us to think. It creates a critical climate in which better informed, analytical, perspicacious scholars, administrators, and citizens are encouraged to seriously confront the "assorted phenomena of their own lives, their own worlds, and their own relationships ... to analyze them, to manage them dialectically, and to discover in the dialectic creative new possibilities for human dignity and mutuality (Shayon, 1971, p. ix). This is precisely Sam Becker's legacy and continuing challenge for us: that such a critical climate flourishes today in the area of media studies, in the discipline of communication studies, in the academy, in the arena of intercollegiate athletics, in the state of Iowa and beyond is due in substantial measure to the life and work of such scholars as Sam Becker.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
25
Issue
1
First Page
25
Last Page
50
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Vande Berg, Leah R.
(1993)
"On Making a Difference: Samuel L. Becker's Communication Criticsm,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 25:
No.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol25/iss1/5
Copyright
©1993 Iowa Communication Association
