Communication Studies

Mass Communication is a scientific research discipline in social sciences and humanities that deal with mass communications is concerned. Media studies emerged from newspaper studies and belongs to communication studies . It is also related to media studies .

Parallels to communication science

The Mass Communication to be a direct successor discipline of journalism . Its name goes back to 1926, when the term was coined.

The distinction between journalism and communication studies has been a matter of dispute since the mid-1980s. Today it is mostly seen as the forerunner of communication science. Many institutes for communication studies are called today because of the broader scope of the subject communication studies and no longer use the old term. The German Society for Media and Communication Studies (DGPuK), the professional association of the institutes for Media and Communication Studies, uses the two terms synonymously. The standard work authors Otfried Jarren and Heinz Bonfadelli speak of journalism and communication science as a subject. Journalism was absorbed in this new discipline.

However, other authors continue to try to differentiate media studies from communication studies. Arguments for such a demarcation include its tradition as a historical-hermeneutical humanities, while communication science has been an empirical social science since the 1960s, and the commitment of journalism only to the publication system .

literature

Otfried Jarren , Heinz Bonfadelli and Gabriele Siegert (2010): Introduction to Journalism. 3rd edition, UTB: Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3825221706 .
Gernot Wersig (2009): Introduction to Journalism and Communication Studies: Expanded and updated by Jan Krone and Tobias Müller-Prothmann. Nomos: Baden-Baden, ISBN 978-3-8329-4225-0 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Journalism - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. Gerhard Maletzke: Communication Science at a Glance. Basics, problems, perspectives. Opladen / Wiesbaden 1998, p. 22.
↑ Stefanie Averbeck: Journalism, In: Günter Bentele, Hans-Bernd Brosius , Otfried Jarren (Ed.): Lexicon of Communication and Media Studies. Opladen 2006, p. 234.
↑ Cf. Otfried Jarren (Ed.): Introduction to Communication Studies. Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 2001.
↑ See Maletzke 1998: 22.

[1] Cf. Gerhard Maletzke: Communication Science at a Glance. Basics, problems, perspectives. Opladen / Wiesbaden 1998, p. 22.

[2] Stefanie Averbeck: Journalism, In: Günter Bentele, Hans-Bernd Brosius , Otfried Jarren (Ed.): Lexicon of Communication and Media Studies. Opladen 2006, p. 234.

[3] Cf. Otfried Jarren (Ed.): Introduction to Communication Studies. Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 2001.

[4] See Maletzke 1998: 22.