Theoretical status of media studies – few comments to the discussions

Marek Jabłonowski, Wojciech Jakubowski

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This article presents theoretical contribution on the status of media studies. With a reference to studies and knowledge classification four hypotheses are being discussed: I. Media studies are situated between humanities and social science; II. Among the subjects of media studies are mass media (material perspective) and the sphere of social circulation of information and communication (formal perspective); III. Media studies is the discipline with vaguely delineated research field; IV. Media studies is a discipline with a relatively low coherence paradigm. All the thesis presented here provide a basis for future discussions.

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studies classification, media studies, media, mediology, communicology