International Journal of Communicology, Volume 2

Preface

The International Journal of Communicology (IJC) is one of the chief publications of the Center for Media Research (CMR) of the Sri Palee Campus, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. The main task of the Center for Media Research and the International Journal of Communicology is to develop interface between academics, practitioners, policy makers and the lay parsons who are involved in and concerned with the development of the country, the media and communication. We are thoroughly determined to develop the research culture of the media and communication. The CMR introduces this structure of interface to ensure the global contemporary grass root comprehensiveness in understanding and analyzing development problems, knowledge building, policy making and procedures. Therefore, the CMR has understood the need for a discourse on the media and communication for the purpose of socio-economic, educational, political and cultural development of each and every society of the globeat diverse levels. We believe that the media and communication are capable enough to make continuous transformations of the knowledge into the practice of development,which is not merely an imperative task, but a task that must be assured. The newly generated acquaintances will refine one anotherfor development purposes.

Accordingly, the CMR and the IJC have provided an open forum for novel and critical voices, intellectual discussions and reports on media and communication and related issues in the different regions in the world. Though nearly hundred years of progressive, systematic and methodical research are presented over Communicology as a disciplinary subject matter of human communication, it is still visible that the existing discourses on media, communication and related fields are limited and restricted due to various barriers. Communicology is theoretically and practically based on multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary discourse mediated by the perception of cultural signs, codes and shapes of consciousness and experience.

Therefore the CMR and theIJC welcome contributions from social scientists behavioral scientists and all the other intellectuals in the field of communicology. Though a few themes have been encouraged below, this task surpasses all narrow boundaries.

Social Communicology, Interpersonal Communicology, Intrapersonal Communicology, Conceptual and Theoretical Structure of Communication and Mass Communication, Communication Law and Policy, Forms of Communication, Communication and Multi-Media Technology, Types of Communication, Development Communication, Mass Communication and Ideology, Intercultural Communication, Political Communication, Media Management, Synthesis Nature of Communication, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, Semiological Aspect of Communication, Satellite and Space Communication, Metaphysical Communication, Global Communication and Social Change, Thematic Communication, Visual Media Technology and Communication Studies, Online Ethnology, Wireless Communication and Net Working, Poly-Functional Aspect of Communication, Engineering Communication and Technology, Informational Capital of Communication , Communication and Anthropology, Political Economy of Mass Communication, Media Psychology, Transformative Communication and Media, Media Sociology, Communication of Network and Information, Media and Communicological Research.

The International Journal of Communocology (IJC) shall be a general forum for Communication and Media researchers as well as for article
and book reviewers.

Dr. DharmaKeerthi Sri Ranjan
Editor – in – Chief