The Academic-Scientific Field of Communication in Brazil: Outlook, Development and Perspectives

This article addresses the configuration of the academic field of Communication in Brazil. It starts with a brief description of the operating system and provides an overview of the characteristics and development of the graduate courses and their sub-areas. It covers scientific research, its evolution, groups, centers or existing research nuclei and points out the critical importance of the postgraduate courses for its consolidation. It presents a situational scenario of the composition of the stricto sensu postgraduate programs throughout the Brazilian territory, the prevailing assessment system, their geographical distribution, their areas of concentration and lines of questioning. It highlights the important role of the academic and scientific associations of the various areas of Communication in the articulation and development of the field of Communication Sciences in the country. It also records the effective participation of the leadership of many of these entities in the development of Latin American communication associations. Based on bibliographical and documental sources, it concerns a descriptive, qualitative and quantitative study in its reflexive analysis. The data obtain express the scope of this communicational field, its great diversity and the concentration of the research centers in the Southeastern and Southern regions of the country.