Abstract

DEMERS, François  and  LAVIGNE, Alain. La comunicación pública: una prioridad contemporánea de investigación. Comun. soc [online]. 2007, n.8, pp.65-87. ISSN 0188-252X.

This text begins with a brief narration relative to the creation of different postgraduate programs by the Department of Information and Communication (dic) at Laval University (Québec, Canada) in the 1980’s and more recently. It illustrates mainly the adoption of the label “public communication” to name (and unite) the activities of three different groups of teachers-investigators: those who taught journalism, those you focused on the professional activity of public relations and third, the academics devoted to the critic of the mass media.

Keywords : communication; democracy; public debates; public space; mass-media.