Swiss Society for Communication and Media Studies
The Swiss Society for Communication and Media Studies (SGKM) deals with public communication and the media. Members are scientists and lecturers at universities, technical colleges, training and further education organizations or experts in media and media research practice as well as in associations, authorities and administrations. Communication scientist Diana Ingenhoff from the University of Friborg has been president since 2014 .
purpose
The SGKM deals with the scientific analysis of public communication, whereby the social science orientation is in the foreground.
The association aims
- to promote and strengthen teaching and research in the field of communication and media studies in Switzerland;
- to defend the common interests of Swiss communication and media studies vis-à-vis political and academic authorities and institutions;
- To make positions of communication and media studies publicly visible;
- to disseminate knowledge of communication and media studies with own events and publications;
- to take joint research projects by hand;
- Exchange information on work programs, research projects and research results;
- to work with institutions and organizations in related fields and practice.
Specialist groups
The specialist groups meet regularly and organize their own conferences. There are currently the following specialist groups:
- Journalism Research / Journalism / Giornalism
- Media and communication history / Histoire des médias et de la communication / Storia dei media e della comunicazione
- Media linguistics / Linguistique des médias / Linguistic dei media
- Media management, media economics / Management des médias, économie des médias / Management dei media, economia dei media
- Media education, media socialization / Pédagogie des médias, Socialization des médias / Meda-Pedagogia, Medi-Socialisazione
- Methods / méthodes / metodi
- Organizational communication / Communication des organizations / Comunicazione organizzativa
- Politische Kommunikation / Communication politique / Comunicazione politica
- Audience, reception and impact research / research de l'audience et des effets / icerca del'auditorio e dei effete
Publications and congresses
Since 2007 the society has published the journal "Studies in Communication Sciences" (SComS) in cooperation with the Facoltà di scienze della comunicazione dell'Università della Svizzera italiana.
Every year, the SGKM invites you to the annual conference with a main topic.
Lecturer Council
The Lecturer Council consists of professors and lecturers in the field of communication and media studies who teach at Swiss universities and technical colleges and are members of the SGKM.
The lecturers' council is responsible for:
a) to discuss common questions of teaching, research, service and the promotion of young talent;
b) to ensure the flow of information about changes in curricula and teaching methods;
c) coordinate between the institutes and promote bilateral and multilateral cooperation;
d) to ensure the exchange of students and the mutual recognition of performance certificates;
e) to bring concerns for the representation of interests of the subject towards the political and scientific authorities into the SGKM.