An increasing number of communication researchers have noted the potential of quantitative criticalism (QuantCrit) or the use of quantitative approaches to pursue social justice and equity agenda. Nonetheless, how to achieve the goals and ideals of QuantCrit in communication studies still largely remains uncharted terrain. This article offers five concrete suggestions for how researchers can bring critical consciousness to quantitative communication research: (a) broadening and diversifying the scope of communication research, (b) (re)framing research questions with a social justice orientation, (c) critiquing dominant narratives and centering the counternarratives, (d) incorporating intersectionality to address marginalization, and (e) employing statistical methods that illuminate interdependence, systems, and power dynamics. This article seeks to enrich the discussion on ways to embrace QuantCrit in communication research to revitalize perspectives and means for identifying and addressing inequalities, and eventually to advance transformative scholarship.

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社会正义和公平导向的传播研究的定量批评

越来越多的传播研究人员注意到定量批评（QuantCrit）或使用定量方法来追求社会正义和公平议程的潜力。尽管如此，如何在传播学研究中实现 QuantCrit 的目标和理想在很大程度上仍然是未知领域。本文针对研究人员如何将批判意识带入定量传播研究提供了五项具体建议：(a) 扩大传播研究的范围并使其多样化，(b) 以社会正义为导向（重新）构建研究问题，(c) 批判主流观点叙事并以反叙事为中心，(d) 纳入交叉性以解决边缘化问题，(e) 采用统计方法来阐明相互依赖、系统和权力动态。本文旨在丰富关于如何在传播研究中采用 QuantCrit 的讨论，以振兴识别和解决不平等问题的观点和方法，并最终推进变革性的学术研究。