Special Issue of Austral Comunicación: Science, Beliefs and Discourses across Social Spheres and Societies

Reynaldo Gustavo Rivera; Alandeom W. Oliveira

doi:10.26422//aucom.2025.1402.riv

Reynaldo Gustavo Rivera Facultad de Comunicación, Universidad Austral
Alandeom W. Oliveira State University of New York, Albany, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26422//aucom.2025.1402.riv

Keywords: cience, beliefs, public sphere

Abstract

In his influential 1999 article "Communication Theory as a Field", Craig conceptualized communication as a meta-theoretical field that plays a constitutive role in shaping social reality. Rather than merely serving as a means of transmitting messages or influencing behaviors, communication functions as a fundamental process through which knowledge would be constructed, relationships formed, and society itself is shaped. This Special issue shows how Communication theory would operate as a meta-theoretical field for the study of the relationships between science and belief in Latin America.

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