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The Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication will be celebrating its 40th anniversary next year (1991). A survey of the works by its members during these 40 years should enable us to follow the track of post-war research on journalism and mass communication in Japan. It should also bring into light the situation created by and surrounding mass media in the post-war Showa Era. However this is not a simple task. The reason is that although mass communication research is an important field in Social Science and Humanities, it is not a discipline with an established methodology. As a result, each researcher or theorist is left to work on his own methodology and with his own problematic stance. This diversity in methodogy and problematic stance is both a fate of mass communication research and its strength. The consequence of this variety is the diversity in the results of the researches. The researches and critical analysis by the members have been and continue to be a succession of trials and errors. This is due to the drastic change in the environment of media brought about by such developments an new technologies, reconstruction of hegemonic ideologies in Eastern Europe, growing awareness of the Third World, and shifts in the system of social values in every country. Not being an independent discipline, mass communication research must take on a multiple approach from various disciplines if it is to enhance its consistency and validity. Hence the repeated call for pluraristic interdisciplinary approach. In editing the 39th issue of Japanese Journalism Review (Shimbungaku Hyoron), we found it very difficult to present a balanced view of the researches on communication in Japan if we were to focus on particular discipline. Thus we decided to present the significant areas of communication research which are appropriate as themes for the Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication, from the point of view of eleven disciplines or theories. It is our aim to point out themes that should be taken up by mass communication research in the future, by critically reviewing the intellectual achievements of the members in the past. As mentioned earlier, it is nearly impossible to review all the achievements in the past 40 years. Moreover, whereas our endeavor to critically review the past achievements in order to show the direction we should take in future will be generally accepted by the members, some specific reviews might be received with strong objection. However, those objections are in fact the other aim of this issue. As we are in the midst of dispute over the change of the name of our society, we believe that critical review of past achievements by its members will help us to grasp the controversy over the name as problems of methodology in mass communication research. The review of the past has revealed that the Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication is a society for those who are studying journalism and mass communication, and not the particular media of newspapers as the name"Shimbun Gakkai"suggests. The editorial responsibility for this issue rests on Makoto Tsuruki and Toshitaka Hayashi, who are members of the board of directors of the Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication. We hope that this issue will contribute to the activating of the society. We would also like to thank the following members of the editorial committee as well as those who wrote the reviews for this issue.
日本マス・コミュニケーション学会の論文
1990-04-30

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