![Sample our Communication Studies journals, sign in here to start your access, 2013 & 2014 volumes FREE to you for 14 days]({"type":"image" , "src" : "/sda/5927/TOC-Subject-Sample-2021-Information-Science2.jpg"})
Abstract
Brenda Dervin was president of The International Communication Association from 1985–86. This essay is her personal recollection as a participant on the margins and a witness of the founding of the organization's Philosophy of Communication Division, the first of the divisions in ICA which broke with the then normative attentions of that association to quantitative bench science.