Analysis of the latest publications in professional periodicals today occupies a special place in the field of communications: firstly, it acts as a filter, demonstrating scientific achievements and gaps that require deeper study; secondly, its results serve as a guide for further research; thirdly, thanks to such analysis, new methodological approaches are developed that are relevant to the current situation of uncertainty. An analytical review of articles published in highly rated journals focused on the problems of the communication sphere allowed us to identify a number of the most pressing topics that make up the discursive field of communication studies today: the need for self-determination of the communication sphere in the situation of the “new reality”; the role of crisis communication in modern society, understood as problem management; issues of public opinion formation and the problem of trust; the place of digitalization in communication processes and its consequences. The authors managed to identify a number of universal thematic areas successfully developed by foreign and domestic scientists. These include: the process of mediatization and transgression as a new turn in its deployment; formation of the metaverse; creation of ecosystems, etc. Approaches to solving acute communication problems related, first of all, to crisis situations were outlined. An important conclusion that the authors draw from the results of the analytical review is the urgent need for an interdisciplinary approach in the study of communication phenomena and processes. It is this methodological principle, which involves the integration of ideas not only from the communication sciences themselves, but also from philosophy, economics, politics, cultural studies and other branches of scientific knowledge, that opens up the possibility of an innovative approach to interdisciplinary comprehensive research in situations of uncertainty and instability.