Mass-communications

Traditionally, mass-communications research has conceptualized the process of communication in terms of a circulation circuit or loop. This [blank] has been criticized for its linearity -- sender/message/receiver -- for its concentration on the level of message exchange and for the absence of a structured conception of the different moments as a complex structure of relations. But it is also possible and [blank] to think of this process in terms of a structure produced and sustained through the articulation of linked [blank] distinctive moments -- production, circulation, distribution/consumption, reproduction. This would be to think of the [blank] as a .complex structure in dominance, sustained through the articulation of connected practices, each of which, however, retains its distinctiveness and has its own [blank] modality, its own forms, and conditions of existence.