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Appel Nissen, Maria. "Social Workers and the Sociological Sense of Social Problems: Balancing Objectivism, Subjectivism, and Social Construction." Qualitative Sociology Review 11, no. 2 (April 30, 2015): 216–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.11.2.14.

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The aim of this article is to explore the intricate relations between objectivism, subjectivism, and constructionism. I explore the construction of social problems in everyday professional practice as a valuable source for addressing and reflecting on differences in perceptions of knowledge. Using data from a study of how Danish social workers perceive social problems, the article shows how social workers’ perceptions of social problems reveal a sociological sense of social problems that renders possible both ontological assumptions, as well as epistemological reflections on the objective, subjective, and social constructionist dimensions of social problems. The social workers are constructing a model of social problems and how they are reproduced, as well as epistemological reflections on the uncertainty of knowing the “reality” of social problems. Those constructions are not formulated strictly in line with scholarly approaches but rather stem from experiences of working with social problems. The article proposes that we can learn something from this in terms of reimagining social constructionism. I propose that social constructionists should cultivate a sociological sense of the practical perceptions and approaches to solve social problems in society.

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Bøe, Tore Dag. "Ethical realism before social constructionism." Theory & Psychology 31, no. 2 (April 2021): 220–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09593543211004756.

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In this article, I explore the idea that there is a fundamental ethical aspect that precedes social constructionism. I suggest that within social constructionism we can identify a development from seeing knowledge as socially constructed ( epistemological social constructionism) to seeing not only knowledge, but also corporeal ways of being as socially constructed ( ontological social constructionism). As a next step, I propose incorporating what I refer to as ethical realism in social constructionist perspectives. In the encounter with the other human being, I argue that there is a real ethical impulse that precedes social constructionism and puts it in motion. This impulse is real in the sense that it is neither constructed within, nor is it dependent upon, any particular social–cultural–historical context. In this paper I consider the ethical aspects of human encounters that allow for a constructionist epistemology and ontology to emerge in the first place. I make use of ideas from Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Rancière and consider how these thinkers are used in the work of Gert Biesta. The ideas are discussed in relation to findings from a previous study by the author and his colleagues exploring the experiences of adolescents taking part in mental health services.

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Friedman, Marilyn. "Nancy J. Hirschmann on the Social Construction of Women's Freedom." Hypatia 21, no. 4 (2006): 182–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2006.tb01135.x.

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Nancy J. Hirschmann presents a feminist, social constructionist account of women's freedom. Friedman's discussion of Hirschmanns account deals with (1) some conceptual problems facing a thoroughgoing social constructionism; (2) three ways to modify social constructionism to avoid those problems; and (3) an assessment of Hirschmann's version of social constructionism in light of the previous discussion.

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Schaller, Mark. "Any Theory Can Be Useful Theory, Even If It Gets On Our Nerves." Personality and Social Psychology Review 6, no. 3 (August 2002): 199–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr0603_5.

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The science of social psychology would benefit from a renewed commitment to big brash theory. Jost and Kruglanski (this issue) suggest that social constructionist themes and attitudes may be useful in this regard. I elaborate further on the ways in which social constructionist theory can indeed inspire conceptual boldness but warn that constructionist approaches can also be conceptually constraining. Social psychology will benefit most if social psychologists emulate social constructionists' willingness to engage in “unnecessary” speculation but rebel against constructionists' unwillingness to seek universally applicable theories. Social constructionism challenges us to confront big questions, and the science of social psychology will best be spurred forward if we respond to that challenge by seeking big bold answers.

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Shotter, John, and John W. Lannamann. "The Situation of Social Constructionism." Theory & Psychology 12, no. 5 (October 2002): 577–609. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959354302012005894.

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In a recent exchange in Theory & Psychology, in which (mostly Gergen's) social constructionism was the subject of some criticism, Gergen (2001a) remarked toward the end of his response, `I no longer find the tradition of argumentation a viable one.... Yet in order to sustain the dialogue, I find myself nevertheless drawn into the ritual' (p. 431). He does not, however, expand any further on this comment. Yet, as he is someone committed to the view that constructions are `social artefacts, products of historically situated interchanges among people' (Gergen, 1985, p. 267), we feel that he should. For, to the extent that he is a participant in `the Ritual' (the ritual of theory-criticism-and-debate), it is constitutive of his own identity. Indeed, there is thus something strangely paradoxical in all discussions of social constructionist theory and metatheory within the Ritual. For participant theorists still all center their talk-talk of theoretical concepts and ideas, of theoretical structures, and of how such structures might explain human conduct-within their own self-contained consciousnesses. As a consequence, although many would like to think of themselves as having moved away from a philosophy centered in the thought and ideas of individuals, such talk fails to achieve its aim. In ignoring the fact that the topics of their talk, their debates, exist only as joint achievements, they pass each other by. In this article, we explore what is entailed in re-situating social constructionism within the dialogically structured, spontaneously responsive, living events occurring between ourselves and the others and othemesses around us.

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Jost, John T., and Arie W. Kruglanski. "The Estrangement of Social Constructionism and Experimental Social Psychology: History of the Rift and Prospects for Reconciliation." Personality and Social Psychology Review 6, no. 3 (August 2002): 168–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr0603_1.

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Social constructionism and experimental social psychology represent two complementary paradigms for understanding human social behavior, but over the last quarter century they have remained oddly and unnecessarily estranged from one another In this article, we trace the history of social constructionist thought and find that the intellectual lineage and guiding assumptions of these two subcultures of social psychology are essentially the same. Next, we clarify the philosophical and ideological bases of their divide to determine how wide the rift really is. Although the differences may appear to be unbridgeable, we argue that a rapprochement is both possible and desirable. At the level of metatheory, Donald Campbell and William J. McGuire have demonstrated that constructionist and empirical insights can be usefully integrated in social psychology. At the level of empirical research, studies of the situated self-concept, social identity, collective representation, attitudes as temporary constructions, communication and shared reality, and cultural psychology have progressed through the incorporation of constructionist themes. Similar opportunities await researchers who explore the contextual bases of history, ideology, and other shared systems of meaning and their implications for social psychology. Finally, we identify some substantive and stylistic complementarities of social constructionism and experimental social psychology and analyze their joint potential for contributing to a well-balanced discipline of social psychology that is worthy of both parts of its name.

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Järvinen, Margaretha, and Gale Miller. "Social Constructionism Turned Into Human Service Work." Qualitative Sociology Review 11, no. 2 (April 30, 2015): 198–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.11.2.13.

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Studies of applied constructionism are opportunities for scholars to explore how social constructionism is a resource used by claims-makers in describing and justifying their orientations to professional practice. The present paper expands sociological constructionism by analyzing applied constructionism in social problems work in Copenhagen, Denmark. Based on interviews with staff members in narrative drug treatment, we explore two themes: the relationship between dominant and liberating narratives and the position of expert knowledge in narrative therapy. Our guiding framework is Ian Hacking’s inquiry into the Social Construction of What? and Kenneth Burke’s dialogic approach of comparing statements to counterstatements. The purpose of the paper is to link academic studies of the social construction of realities to applied constructionists’ principles in addressing social problems. We do this by describing narrative therapists’ critical reflections on their own work, suggesting that these reflections are not only useful when it comes to developing narrative therapy but also for the advancement of academic constructionism.

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Kukla, André. "On social constructionism." American Psychologist 41, no. 4 (April 1986): 480–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0003-066x.41.4.480.b.

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Edley, Nigel. "Unravelling Social Constructionism." Theory & Psychology 11, no. 3 (June 2001): 433–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959354301113008.

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Mather, Ronald. "Gergen's Social Constructionism." Theory & Psychology 12, no. 5 (October 2002): 695–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959354302012005900.

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Baxter, Leslie A. "Constructing “Social Constructionism”." Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews 41, no. 5 (May 1996): 457–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/004434.

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KLASSEN, ABIGAIL. "Social Constructionism and Relativism: An Aporia?" Dialogue 57, no. 2 (April 20, 2018): 303–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0012217317000476.

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I analyze the extent to which the theoretical cogency and practical efficacy of descriptive and ameliorative social constructionist programs are affected by relativism in the context of competing analyses of some purported social construction X. My task in this paper is successful if it can explain, organize, and clarify how relativism concerning the question ‘What should our concept of X be?’ affects social constructionist programs, and ameliorative versions of social constructionism especially. In this paper, I aim to make clearer to those not well-versed in this field what is at stake in these programs and why these programs should not be easily dismissed.

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Turner, Stephen. "Social Constructionism and Social Theory." Sociological Theory 9, no. 1 (1991): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/201871.

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Harris, Scott R. "Social Constructionism and Social Inequality." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 35, no. 3 (June 2006): 223–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891241606286816.

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Nightingale, David J., and John Cromby. "Social Constructionism as Ontology." Theory & Psychology 12, no. 5 (October 2002): 701–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959354302012005901.

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Montola, Markus. "Social Constructionism and Ludology." Simulation & Gaming 43, no. 3 (December 26, 2011): 300–320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1046878111422111.

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Stein, Terry S. "Social Constructionism and Essentialism." Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy 2, no. 4 (November 19, 1998): 29–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j236v02n04_04.

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Lindgren, Monica, and Johann Packendorff. "Social constructionism and entrepreneurship." International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 15, no. 1 (January 30, 2009): 25–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13552550910934440.

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Shotter, John. "Social Constructionism and Realism." Theory & Psychology 2, no. 2 (May 1992): 175–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959354392022005.

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Somerville, Peter. "But Why Social Constructionism?" Housing, Theory and Society 19, no. 2 (June 2002): 78–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/140360902760385619.

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Craib, Ian. "Social Constructionism as a Social Psychosis." Sociology 31, no. 1 (February 1997): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038597031001002.

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Slezak, Peter. "The social construction of social constructionism." Inquiry 37, no. 2 (June 1994): 139–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00201749408602346.

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ŞAHİN, FATIH. "Implications of social constructionism for social work." Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development 16, no. 1 (June 2006): 57–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21650993.2006.9755992.

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NAKAGAWA, Nobutoshi. "Social Constructionism and Empirical Researchability." Japanese Sociological Review 55, no. 3 (2004): 244–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4057/jsr.55.244.

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HAMANISHI, Eiji. "Constructionism and Social Movement Research:." Japanese Sociological Review 68, no. 1 (2017): 55–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.4057/jsr.68.55.

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MacKay, Robert, and Vivien Burr. "An Introduction to Social Constructionism." Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie 22, no. 4 (1997): 526. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3341697.

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Burkitt, Ian, Vivien Burr, and Kenneth J. Gergen. "An Introduction to Social Constructionism." British Journal of Sociology 47, no. 4 (December 1996): 718. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/591084.

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Sullivan, Patricia A., Charles Bazerman, Kenneth Bruffee, and Linda Flower. "Social Constructionism and Literacy Studies." College English 57, no. 8 (December 1995): 950. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/378628.

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White, Robert. "Discourse analysis and social constructionism." Nurse Researcher 12, no. 2 (October 2004): 7–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/nr.12.2.7.s3.

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White, Robert. "Discourse analysis and social constructionism." Nurse Researcher 12, no. 2 (October 2004): 7–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/nr2004.10.12.2.7.c5935.

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Slife, Brent D., and Frank C. Richardson. "The Relativism of Social Constructionism." Journal of Constructivist Psychology 24, no. 4 (October 2011): 333–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10720537.2011.593475.

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Bhatia, Sunil. "Toward an acentive social constructionism." Journal of Constructivist Psychology 11, no. 1 (January 1998): 79–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10720539808404640.

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Teo, Thomas. "Book Review: Unfolding Social Constructionism." History of the Human Sciences 19, no. 2 (May 2006): 101–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952695106064118.

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Katzko, Michael W. "The Construction of `Social Constructionism'." Theory & Psychology 12, no. 5 (October 2002): 671–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959354302012005898.

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Durrheim, Kevin. "Social Constructionism, Discourse, and Psychology." South African Journal of Psychology 27, no. 3 (September 1997): 175–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/008124639702700308.

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This paper serves as an introduction to social constructionist approaches to psychology. It outlines the arguments which have prompted a shift away from empiricism in the social sciences. Harré's (1992) distinction between behaviourism and the first and second cognitive revolution is used to provide a broad historical framework to develop contrasts between mainstream empiricist psychology and constructionist approaches. The central claim is that theories of meaning are embodied in theories of science, and that we need a new (constructionist) theory of science to underpin a psychology which takes the meaningful nature of human activity as its object of study. Finally, the paper introduces discourse analysis as a methodology which can sustain a constructionist, post-empiricist analysis.

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Pepitone, Albert. "Social Constructionism: Theme and Variations." Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews 31, no. 9 (September 1986): 684–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/025035.

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Owen, Ian R. "Applying social constructionism to psychotherapy." Counselling Psychology Quarterly 5, no. 4 (October 1992): 385–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09515079208254483.

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Sayer, Andrew. "Essentialism, Social Constructionism, and beyond." Sociological Review 45, no. 3 (August 1997): 453–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.00073.

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Anti-essentialism has criticised a range of targets, from cultural essentialism and biological reductionism to causal explanation and foundationalism, and concerning topics ranging from markets to ‘race’, identity and sexuality. The paper assesses these diverse lines of critique. Some social phenomena, like identities, clearly do not have essences, but it does not follow from this that other phenomena we study do not have essences or something like them. While a strong, or deterministic essentialism is always wrong and often dangerously misleading, a moderate, non-deterministic essentialism is necessary for explanation and for a social science that claims to be critical and have emancipatory potential. The concept of essence is problematic, but not for some of the epistemological and ontological reasons put forward by anti-essentialism. Strong variants of social constructionism are liable to invert rather than resolve the problems of strong essentialism, including those of its biological reductionist guises. While it may be best to avoid concepts of essences which assume that the distinguishing and generative properties of objects must coincide, we still need to distinguish classes of objects and identify causal powers which enable and constrain what those objects can do.

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Wilson, Fiona, and Stephen Tagg. "Social constructionism and personal constructivism." International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship 2, no. 1 (March 30, 2010): 68–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17566261011026556.

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de Barbaro, Bogdan. "Schizophrenia – Reflections on social constructionism." Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii 25, no. 3 (July 2016): 136–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pin.2016.08.003.

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DICKINS, THOMAS E. "Social Constructionism as Cognitive Science." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 34, no. 4 (December 2004): 333–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5914.2004.00253.x.

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GILES, JAMES. "Social Constructionism and Sexual Desire." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 36, no. 3 (September 2006): 225–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5914.2006.00305.x.

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Mckerrell, Simon. "Social constructionism in music studies." Popular Music 35, no. 3 (September 14, 2016): 425–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143016000581.

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Zuckerkandl, Emile. "Social Constructionism, a Lost Cause." Journal of Molecular Evolution 51, no. 6 (December 2000): 517–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002390010115.

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Romashova, I. P. "Social Constructionism of Corporate Discourse." Nauchnyy dialog, no. 10 (2019): 215–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2019-10-215-231.

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Greenwood, John D. "Realism, Empiricism and Social Constructionism." Theory & Psychology 2, no. 2 (May 1992): 131–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959354392022001.

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Kenwood, Christine. "Does Volition Need Social Constructionism?" Theory & Psychology 6, no. 3 (August 1996): 533–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959354396063010.

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Phelan, Shane. "Social Constructionism, Sexuality, and Politics." Women & Politics 12, no. 1 (October 15, 1992): 73–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j014v12n01_04.

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Greeley, Andrew. "Social constructionism with a vengeance." Society 40, no. 3 (March 2003): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-003-1035-7.

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Udoudom, Uduak, Borono Bassey, Kufre George, and Samuel Etifit. "Impact of Symbolic Interactionism, Pragmatism and Social Constructionism on Communication and Media Practice." International Journal of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences 2, no. 1 (January 14, 2024): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.58578/ijhess.v2i1.2547.

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As communication technologies and media platforms continue to evolve, there is a growing need to re-examine the theoretical paradigms underpinning our understanding of human interaction and meaning-making. This research elucidates the enduring relevance of three sociological perspectives—Symbolic Interactionism, Pragmatism, and Social Constructionism—for making sense of contemporary communication landscapes. Employing a qualitative meta-synthesis methodology, we analysed 50 academic articles and book chapters discussing applications of these perspectives within communication and media studies. Our analysis reveals how core concepts from each tradition—including symbolic meaning-making, practical consequences of communication, socially constructed representations—contain explanatory power for grasping new communication patterns and challenges brought by digitalization. Researchers apply Symbolic Interactionist notions of symbolic cues and improvised self-presentations to study computer-mediated communication and social media self-constructions. Pragmatist views on communicative actions as tools for desired ends inform critical analyses of fake news propagation and disinformation campaigns. Social Constructionist emphasis on mass media representations shaping shared realities has expanded to deconstructions of algorithmically-curated information environments. By elucidating these and other linkages, our study aims to revitalize engagement with forgotten or overlooked theoretical foundations in order to advance communication scholarship and enhance reflexivity within emergent media ecosystems. We conclude that integrating insights from Symbolic Interactionism, Pragmatism, and Social Constructionism remains vitally important, both for scholarly aims of explaining reality and practical aims of consciously shaping it.

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