Name
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Shelton Gunaratne
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Title
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Professor of Mass Communications Emeritus Minnesota State University Moorhead
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Brief Introduction
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Professor Gunaratne is the first one who establishes a perfect sketch by linking communication theories with Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism. The book, The Dao of Press, published in 2005 received great feedback.
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Recent Publications
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Books/Monographs
Gunaratne, S. (2006).Public Sphere and Communicative Rationality: Interrogating Habermas's Eurocentrism Journalism & Communication Monographs, 8 (2). [An elaboration based on a paper titled Habermas, public sphere, and communicative-action theory: Eurocentrism or universalism? presented at the Australian & New Zealand Communication Association conference in Brisbane , July 9-11, 2003.]
Gunaratne, S. (2005). The Dao of the Press: A Humanocentric Theory, Cresskill , NJ : Hampton Press. ISBN 1-5727-3616-X or 1-5727-3617-8. [An elaboration of the paper titled "Theory of communication-outlets and free expression: A humanocentric exploration" presented to the Communication Theory and Methodology Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication at the annual convention in Miami Beach, Fla., Aug. 7-10, 2002.
Gunaratne, S. (2000). Handbook of the Media in Asia .. New Delhi : SAGE Publications. [Editor and principal author. Author of Part I and co-author of chapters on Bangladesh , Pakistan , Sri Lanka, Indonesia , Malaysia , Mongolia and North Korea ]. ISBN 0-7619-9427-0. 734pp.
Book Chapters
Gunaratne, S. (2006)."Democracy, journalism and systems: Perspectives from East and West." In X. Hao & S. K. Datta-Ray (Eds.), Issues and challenges in Asian journalism (pp. 1-24). Singapore : Marshall Cavendish.
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Paper:
Prepared for presentation at a special conference on a multicultural approach to communication studies, Taipei , Taiwan , December 2008.
DE-WESTERNIZING COMMUNICATION / SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH:
OPPORTUNITIES AND LIMITATIONS
ABSTRACT / This paper focuses on the different cultural perspectives that scholars have introduced or could introduce to communication / social science research so as to move it away from Occidental biases toward universal universalism. It examines the overlapping meta-theories—including Orientalism and Eurocentrism—that scholars have formulated to diagnose the afflictions plaguing communication science in the non-Western world. It examines the reasons why the United States , United Kingdom , and France remain the core nations of social science, with Germany , Japan , the Netherlands , and Italy in the semi-periphery. It explicates the opportunities available to all non-Western scholars, but particularly to Asian scholars, to enrich the scope of communication science, where the semantic meaning of science connotes a universal universalism, not a European universalism (Wallerstein, 2006). Concomitantly, it looks at the limitations, if any, for such efforts to achieve greater heights.
Keywords / academic dependency /center-periphery / communication science / Eurocentrism / metatheory / Orientalism / social science /
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