TY - GEN

T1 - St. Petersburg School of Communication Studies

T2 - 2020 IEEE Communication Strategies in Digital Society Seminar (ComSDS)

AU - Bykov, Il'Ia A.

AU - Achkasova, Vera V.

AU - Bakhvalova, Anastasia A.

PY - 2020/4

Y1 - 2020/4

N2 - The paper analyses the contemporary development of communication studies in St Petersburg, the second largest education and scientific center in Russia. Here, as well as all around Russia, communication studies traditionally co-exist with journalism education. The study focuses on the modern stage of the communication studies in St Petersburg. After the collapse of the USSR the new forms of education and research in communication were introduced. The new approaches came from political science, economics, psychology, and sociology. Reflecting these changes, in 2011 the Department of Journalism at St Petersburg State University has been transformed into the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Simultaneously, communication studies are developing in other educational institutions of St Petersburg such as Polytechnic University, LETI University, University of Economics, etc. In order to examine the state and scope of communication studies in St Petersburg the authors use in-depth interviews with leading scholars in the field of communication studies. Special attention was paid to the impact of digitization on research and teaching. The study claims that St Petersburg school of communication studies stays on the early stages of development due to the theoretical incoherence and weak international representation.

AB - The paper analyses the contemporary development of communication studies in St Petersburg, the second largest education and scientific center in Russia. Here, as well as all around Russia, communication studies traditionally co-exist with journalism education. The study focuses on the modern stage of the communication studies in St Petersburg. After the collapse of the USSR the new forms of education and research in communication were introduced. The new approaches came from political science, economics, psychology, and sociology. Reflecting these changes, in 2011 the Department of Journalism at St Petersburg State University has been transformed into the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Simultaneously, communication studies are developing in other educational institutions of St Petersburg such as Polytechnic University, LETI University, University of Economics, etc. In order to examine the state and scope of communication studies in St Petersburg the authors use in-depth interviews with leading scholars in the field of communication studies. Special attention was paid to the impact of digitization on research and teaching. The study claims that St Petersburg school of communication studies stays on the early stages of development due to the theoretical incoherence and weak international representation.

KW - communication studies

KW - digital technologies

KW - public relations

KW - school of studies

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85085937875&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/3af6a79d-c1b1-3770-8de8-f3e9ec0ff515/

U2 - 10.1109/ComSDS49898.2020.9101235

DO - 10.1109/ComSDS49898.2020.9101235

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85085937875

SN - 9781728164410

SP - 122

EP - 125

BT - Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Communication Strategies in Digital Society Seminar, ComSDS 2020

A2 - Shaposhnikov, S.

A2 - Sharakhina, L.

PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Y2 - 8 April 2020 through 8 April 2020

ER -