Nauki o komunikacji społecznej i mediach – forma, treść, kontekst
Communication and Media Studies – Name, Content and Context

Summary/Abstract: Pursuant to Article 5 (3) of the July 20, 2018 Act, The Law on Higher Education and Science, which specifies academic disciplines in the fields of science and art, the September 20, 2018 Regulation of the Minister of Science and Higher Education reclassified the academic disciplines in Poland’s higher education system. Selected disciplines were consolidated, reducing the total number of disciplines in the sciences and arts from 102 to 42. In this paper, I analyse the consequences of these consolidations, using one of the newly created disciplines, Communication and Media Studies, as a case study. Communication and Media Studies is an aggregate of three previously independent disciplines, namely, Library and Information Science, Media Studies and Cognition, and Social Communication Studies. Analysis specifically focuses on the discipline’s nomenclature, its aims and objectives, methodology (content), and human resources. These are examined in relation to similar disciplines in world of science and arts (context).

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