The communications research in Spain: the political economy epistemological approach

Abstract

Although communications research in Spain produces a voluminous output and shows a great dynamism through a vast number of conferences and symposia, publications, books and articles, and doctoral dissertations, does this vast quantity show the same richness in terms of quality and diversity? In order to answer this question, and starting from the hypothesis that certain critical perspectives, mainly the political economy one, are deeply in the minority in the communications research field, the authors of this paper have carried out a study on the scholarly communications research presented or published in Spain during 2006. This paper presents the major results of it.