Dyskurs wokół statusu nauki o mediach i komunikacji społecznej

Abstract

A multi-dimensional character of the issues and problems connected with mass media and a diversity of the fields of research indicate an interdisciplinary character of mass media. The aim of our analyses was to show the search for the rank of studies on mass media and social communication, also in the context of a dispute on the interdisciplinary character of media research. Undoubtedly, new media technologies, as well as many other processes of civilizational development have changed the conditions of scientific approach to media and media communication. Considering their diversity and multi-aspect character, a lot of phenomena and trends generated by mass media have to be the subject of an analysis of various sciences or of one interdisciplinary science. The role of an interdisciplinary platform can and indeed should be played by modem sciences studying media and communication: communicology and mediology. A broad consensus, which we also support, has been reached in the discourse on the interdisciplinary character of media research to recognize communication science as a field of interdisciplinary research, based on empirically oriented sociological sciences and characterized by a wide sociological, psychological and philosophical context and roots, and to recognize it as a field of pragmatic functionality and epistemological and methodological accuracy.