International and intercultural communication: the struggle for the social imaginarium, the fear to segregation and the terrorism Case

• Autor(a) principal: Wainberg, Jacques A.
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Porto Alegre. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/index.php/civitas/article/view/4

This work presents a reflection about the communication phenomenon and its connections with the international affairs. Dominant factor in the contemporaneous world, the communications must be thought in a enlargement perspective, transposing aspects, contacts, universes, areas and regions with dimensions didn’t recognized before as a discipline. In this way, the contemporaneous world dynamic demand that the communications precise to be understandable in its dimensions by the researchers who has confused, or unrecognizing it. The problem of the intercultural communication, however, needs to be unlighted to permit that complex issues, as terrorism, be approached since a perspective that tries to solve it, because it can explain crucial aspects of how codifications, the social imaginaries, segregation and the terror. By this reason, the present article uses terrorism and a study case, showing how it can be better comprehended considering the problem of the intercultural communications. Key words: International policy; International communication; Intercultural communication; Segregation; Social imaginaries; Terrorism