@article{ref1,
title="Ecology of Meanings: A Critical Constructivist Communication Model",
journal="Communication theory",
year="2007",
author="Campos, Milton N.",
volume="17",
number="4",
pages="386-410",
abstract="Ecology of meanings is proposed as a theoretical model to explain communication processes. It is a critical constructivist approach that integrates the model of exchange values by Jean Piaget and the communication model of schematization by Jean-Blaise Grize, and explores a research path envisaged by Jürgen Habermas in the theory of communicative action. The model leads to an understanding of communication science as a transversal discipline that crosses all others; that is, both psychological and social, and that accounts for universal and necessary as well as particular and contingent knowledge. In this article, the model and potential contributions are explained.<p />",
language="",
issn="1050-3293",
doi="10.1111/j.1468-2885.2007.00304.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2007.00304.x"
}