Media Studies Terminology

Walery Pisarek

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In July 2011 the Ministry of Science and Higher Education accepted the distinct identity of interpersonal communication research by means of media as a separate discipline and gave it the term media studies. It is assumed that the criterion for scientific research is the inter-subjective verification and communication of its statements. The verification tool is scientific methodology, the communication tool – terminology. Therefore, care for terminology is one of the most important elements constituting media studies as a new discipline. Polish terminology should continue the tradition of press and media terminology with its multidisciplinary character in ongoing critical contact with terminology used in international circulation. Currently, conducting systematic work on media studies terminology is supported by the formal acknowledgment of the discipline, and announcing the UNESCO Guidelines for Terminology Policies, which in Poland is executed by the Polish Committee for Standardization (PKN). The article ends with a initiative for one of the Polish university institutes of journalism to appear before the National Science Center with a motion for a grant to prepare a descriptive dictionary of terminology as a media studies thesaurus, based among others on the relevant literature of the last decade.

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media studies, terminology, scientific term, dictionary of terms, thesaurus