Tradycje polskiego medioznawstwa
Traditions of Polish media studies

Summary/Abstract: The author concluded that Polish media studies had its symbolic beginning in the last years of the 18th century. In the next century, the media were the subject of numerous studies conducted by representatives of the older disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. Polish media studies, going through a descriptive and cumulative period, developed its first paradigm in the 1960s. In the next decade, this paradigm began to apply not only to the media, but also to social communication. A characteristic feature of Polish research on social communication and media is their interdisciplinarity and reference to other specific disciplines, both in the field of social sciences and the humanities. The rapid development of contemporary media also causes media scholars to expand their technical competences. The multiplication of theoretical approaches forces media scholars to be interdisciplinary, and at the same time makes their research very paradigmatically diverse.

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