The proliferation of scholarly sources in the mass communication field adds to the information explosion that routinely abbreviates the useful half-life of knowledge throughout the discipline.

大众传播领域学术来源的扩散导致了信息爆炸，而信息爆炸简化了整个学科有用的半衰期知识。

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Careers are more volatile, too, as the half-life of marketable knowledge shrinks.

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