Editor's note
In this era of information technologies, everyone talks about communication: scientists analyze communication mechanisms; managers, public relations specialists and advertising practitioners discuss the most effective technologies; and numerous books have revealed the secrets of impact on an addressee.
A person who has never experienced difficulties in communication and has never set oneself a goal to overcome them is hardly imaginable. All of the above aspects are united by a single area of concern: communication study, which has become a field of interdisciplinary scientific research in recent decades. Literary scholars and linguists, social and political scientists, psychologists, specialists in intercultural communication and semiotics, and an endless list of other professions, meet one another at a “communication crossroads”. The very fact that their paths do not diverge at said crossroads is significant. Communication science is available to anyone who is interested in “Homo Educandus”.
These days, communication science is not only a theory, but a set of dynamically developing discursive practices, which require scientific, as well as didactic, knowledge. For this reason, we invite the readers and authors of the journal to discuss issues related to the reality of communication which is arising and developing before our eyes. It is our hope that this journal will strengthen ties between Russian and foreign scientific centers, will generate new lines of communication research, and will stimulate the interest of young scholars to this problematics. Discussions on various approaches and scholarly traditions are always productive and contribute actively to understanding of issues important not only for the research community, but for society at large.
Communication is a social science. As it changes, we could see an entire conglomeration of trends in human evolution within a variety of social, political and economical relations. To reflect on these processes is an absolute imperative, in order to understand the ways of development of modern society. In these pages, we will discuss issues that allow us to explore new ways of understanding and to interact successfully in this modern multipolar world.
