Regards the Problem of Formation of Methodological Guidelines of Science of Social Communications

I. Bondarenko

Abstract


The purpose of the article is to analyze the main methodological paradigms that have emerged in the world and Ukrainian science of communication.

Research methodology. The author, based on the methodology of comparative analysis, tries to outline the specifics of national programs for the development of the science of social communications. Studying the world experience of research the phenomena of mass communication and social communication technologies, the expert carries out a thorough review of the terminology of this academic project. Her attention is focused on the exact semantics and sources of origin of the terms that denote this field of knowledge – «communicative studies», «communicology», «science of social communications» («сommunication studies» / «communication sciences»). The method of meta-analysis allowed to reproduce the process of formation of the social communication approach in Ukrainian science.

Results. The article argues that the Ukrainian platform for the study of social communications is a modern and autonomous research strategy that integrates the achievements of the world humanities and the practice of scientific understanding of communication systems in the works of Ukrainian scholars.

Novelty. The article presents a critical understanding of the application of social engineering tools to the construction of social communication space of society. The research represents the dynamics of meaningful modifications of the «social engineering» concept in world science.

Practical significance. The study suggests that the status of social communications as an applied science automatically organizes all its methodological resources, focused on the design of communication systems and networks, optimization of existing social communication technologies, forecasting the possible negative consequences of their impact on society, constructing secure legal information space.

Key words: media technologies, methodology, latest media, social engineering, term system, communication science, social communications, communicative studies.


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.32840/cpu2219-8741/2020.3(43).9

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