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Dear reader,
Since issue 2003/2, each volume of our journal has offered to the multidisciplinary
community of communication researchers both extensive
thematic sections collecting papers covering each time a particular area of
communication sciences (such as intercultural communication, health
communication, television and new media) and general sections featuring
contributions coming from the whole spectrum of disciplines that make
up the field. In fact, we believe both in-depth focussing on complex
emerging issues, and breadth of coverage are necessary components in a
communication sciences journal.
This tradition continues with the sixth volume of Studies in
Communication Sciences albeit with a different subdivision of the matter
between the two issues of the volume, which is motivated by a special
occasion.
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So, the present issue (6/1) is not devoted to a specific topic but presents
a series of contributions from a wide range of disciplines within
communication sciences, while the next issue will be entirely thematic:
issue 6/2 will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the foundation of the
Faculty of Communication Sciences in Lugano in the academic year
1996/1997 by presenting an extended discussion of the horizontal topic
of Communication Sciences as a Multidisciplinary Enterprise.
We hope that both issues will contribute significantly, in different
ways, to the journal’s aim of providing a forum for innovative interdisciplinary
dialogue within communication sciences.
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