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Walery Pisarek’s “Introduction to Communication Studies” as a Modern Academic Textbook

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on Professor’s Pisarek textbook published in 2008. This significant scientific achievement in Pisarek’s academic career remains to this day an essential source of knowledge for researchers and students in the theory of mass communication. The work consists of 15 chapters, a bibliography, two annexes, and an index. It is based on a rich source dataset, namely the 19 page-long bibliography containing more than 500 items. The wide range of topics presented in the textbook shows the most significant trends in media studies. The first, a theoretical perspective of contemporary media theory and the theory of communication is followed by the second, a methodological perspective, given as a description of media research tools and techniques. The third, a historical perspective is used as an explanation of communication phenomena and problems. A clear explanation of the essential concepts of the subject is particularly important for students. Six chapters of the textbook deal with research issues in communication, what is understandable, due to the fact that the author was a long-time director of the Press Research Centre in Krakow. Writing the “Introduction to Communication Studies” Walery Pisarek devoted considerable space to three main links in media communication, namely the sender, the message and the recipient.

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