Government Communication as a Normative Practice

The network society is generally challenging for today’s communication practitioners because they are no longer the sole entities responsible for communication processes. This is a major change for many of them. In this paper, it will be contended that the normative practice model as developed withi...

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VerfasserInnen: Jansen, Peter (VerfasserIn) ; van der Stoep, Jan (VerfasserIn) ; Jochemsen, Henk 1952- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2017
In: Philosophia reformata
Jahr: 2017, Band: 82, Heft: 2, Seiten: 121-145
IxTheo Notationen:VA Philosophie
ZC Politik
weitere Schlagwörter:B government communication normative practice model reformational philosophy
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Zusammenfassung:The network society is generally challenging for today’s communication practitioners because they are no longer the sole entities responsible for communication processes. This is a major change for many of them. In this paper, it will be contended that the normative practice model as developed within reformational philosophy is beneficial for clarifying the structure of communication practices. Based on this model, we argue that government communication should not be considered as primarily an activity that focuses on societal legitimation of policy; rather, it focuses on clarifying the meaning of the actions of the government. If the government can convincingly answer the question about the reason for their actions, societal legitimation will subsequently follow. Hence, it is argued that government communication is primarily linguistically qualified.
ISSN:2352-8230
Enthält:In: Philosophia reformata
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/23528230-08202004