Communication Research in Central America (1980-2015)

The purpose of this essay is to analyse academic texts that study the scientific production on communication in Central American, academic institutions between 1980 and 2015. We collected 242 documents whose analysis demonstrates the interest of the academics to investigate communications in different ways. The documents show a relationship between the academic research with the situation and context of each country and the region in general. Studies published during the 1980’s, for example, refer to the communication and the Central American conflict. In the 1990s, the role of communication in the construction of democracy, and from the beginning of the 21st century there is a new interest in telecommunications and Information and Communication Technologies (ict). Teaching of communications in Central America began until the decade of 1980, with the exception of Guatemala and Costa Rica. This favoured the research and dissemination of studies concerning communication.