La investigación en Documentación Informativa en España

Abstract

The author meditates about projects and lines of research in Information Science. Information Sciences in Mass Media began to be a target of research and analysis in Spain when study programs about the subject where included in the Information Sciences Faculties. This brought reflexion over the concept and scope of Information Science , as well as over appropriate teaching and researching methodologies. The same departments lodged the first research works referring to the subject, which took the shape of thesis, dissertations and other academic works. Henceforth Information sciences applied to Mass Media has consolidated to produce a specialty inside the discipline. This explains the meaningful position of Spanish media in the social context of the last quarter of the century, as well as the wide spreaded perception on the high relevance that information management has taken in the enterprises.