Consensus regarding what becomes mainstream, popular, and commonplace within academia is subtly managed in accord with conformity of thought, contemporary popular ideas, and major assumptions/paradigms predominating fields, which in turn are comprised of hegemonic, ideological ideas, frameworks and arguments that are informed and bound by power. Power, professionalisation, and dominant ideological currents inform and legitimise paradigmatic ideas, which in turn influence perceptions and reception. This paper explores how Communication Studies have been impacted by dominant configurations of power and encourages debate on the extent to which ideological bias and ideological marginalisation are normative dimensions of Communication Studies.

关于什么成为学术界的主流、流行和司空见惯的共识是根据思想的一致性、当代流行的思想和主导领域的主要假设/范式巧妙地管理的，而这些领域又由霸权的、意识形态的思想、框架和论点组成，这些都是知情并受权力约束。权力、专业化和占主导地位的意识形态潮流为范式思想提供信息并使之合法化，这反过来又影响感知和接受。本文探讨了传播学如何受到主导权力配置的影响，并鼓励就意识形态偏见和意识形态边缘化在多大程度上是传播学的规范维度进行辩论。