Vicissitudes of Communication Research in Spain in the Sexennial Period 2009-2015

Abstract

Communication research in Spain is a university and professional activity that has an apparent coherence between academic researchers, methodological training and the type of professional applications with social and market value. In fact, research in Communication in Spain is a social practice that suffers many imbalances that are reflected in the issues in the proceedings, in methodological skills in team building, lending and social projection of research . This article summarizes the results of three surveys online conducted by the group mdcs (Dialectic Mediation of Social Communication) in 2009, 2011 and 2013 to teachers, researchers and media professionals in Spain. It also builds on the current research project R & D MapCom, available in http://www.mapcom.es/index.html (Ref. CSO2013-47933-C4) centered on the study of System Research Spain on social communication practices: Designing, Groups, Lines, study objects and methods.