本文的核心關懷是:台灣傳播領域學術研究的傳統和基礎是什麼?台灣的傳播研究者過去作了哪些研究?哪些研究又未曾受到重視?論文除針對台灣國家科學委員會傳播學門在1996-2009年所補助的690件專題計畫進行研究外,並與作者在2000年所完成的另一個研究的發現進行比較,企圖回答上述問題,並以實證資料呈現台灣傳播研究的歷史與特色。
The core concern of this paper is to explore the following questions. What are the conventions and foundations of communication research in Taiwan? Does Taiwan's communication research undergo any paradigm shift? Finally, what are these paradigms? Using 690 projects funded by the National Science Council of Taiwan from 1996 to 2009 as a research sample, this paper draws the profile of communication research in Taiwan and compares it to the research findings of a similar study conducted in 2000. In the 2000 paper, 153 projects funded by the National Science Council of Taiwan from 1984 to 1999 were analyzed.