RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

If we limit the subject of interests to communication researches in the radio and television media only, we will make роог the picture which can be obtained by the whole register. The whole register could inform us about the researches of contents, forms and ways of mutual, group and mass communications and better clarify the position, tasks and influence of radio and television in comparison to other means of public communications in our society. It could, fmally, give us a better view of the theory and methodological ways which we use in the researches of communication process. Only by a description of all the communication researches we сап get an entire reply to the question whether we investigate the layers of communication process enough, as well as their links and mutual dependence on other social processes. It is likely that we will have to wait for such complete bibliography of all communication researches in Yugoslavia. However, the incomplete knowledge of other researches together with the data from this bibliography, help us to conclude that there is no essential difference between communication researches at research departments of RTV insdtutions and other communication studies dohe by quaffiled scientific institutions from both theoretical and methodological point of view. The thorough communication researches are effected more at other Yugoslav research instilufifons than at those at RTV centres, especially at the universities. Nevertheless, we all think that Yugoslav science about communication is insufficient and underdeveloped. Our sociaiist self-managing development brings a larger variety of forms then researches in the field °f communication do uncover. Numerous researches in electronic media, their programmes and the public are stffl not the results of analysis of our reality which are based on the foundations of historical materialism. At the same time, our communication science does not analize bourgeois theories and dogmatic marxist approaches critically enough. It is even more difficult to realize all this as we are witnesses of the defeats which experience positivistic bourgeois communicologists simultaneously with the new affirmation of Marxist

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