Investigación de la comunicación: referentes y condiciones internacionales de un diálogo transversal de saberes

after examining some recent publications from very different parts of the world on the much needed conceptual and practical renovation of research on communications, we propose a reflection on the latin american conditions in order to take on the implications of what is known as the "centrality of communications" and reorganizing academic structures, but having in mind a better defined orientation vis-à-vis relevant social "goals" in order to counteract some dangerous trends such as what we can call "shallow immediatism" or "technologism" when studying media and communications.