Annotation
This subject will introduce basic theoretical views on communication with emphasis on their interdisciplinarity. On the basis of the reflection of the development of thinking about media, with focus on the 20th century, it will acquaint the students with changes of the paradigm of media studies and basic milestones of the research of not only media communication.
This subject will offer the students basic theoretical assumptions necessary for setting a research problem in the areas of communication. To the basic issues of the course belong basic distinctions of the mediated and non-mediated communication, concept of mediation and its influences on the example of changes of the political communication.