The Field of Communication: its constitution, challenges and dilemmas

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Maria Immacolata Vassallo de
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista FAMECOS: Mídia cultura e tecnologia
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/revistafamecos/article/view/3372
• topic: Communication; field of communication; scientific research; The field of communication; Comunicação; campo da comunicação; pesquisa científica; Campo da comunicação

The origin of fields of study such as Communication comes from a double movement. The first is an internal movement of science itself, which is one of convergence and overlapping of contents and methodologies, and which is increasingly noticed in the recent historical development of Social Sciences. The second is the movement of historical rupture caused by what is conventionally called the process of globalization. In the present text I follow previous reflections on the subject, to now focus on the double movement mentioned above, problematizing: 1) the meanings of the notion of field and academic field; 2) the disciplinarization that guided the birth and development of the Social Sciences and in sequence, the studies of Communication; 3) global society as a communication society; 4) the dilemmas of the institutionalization of the field of Communication in Brazil.