Foreword

Collecting such a high number of contributions on Communication studies is an important opportunity to check the latest changes in a scientific field whose borders have always been very movable. This is a consequence of the discipline’s debt to older and wider scientific fields, such as social and political sciences, psychology anthropology and language studies. But it is also an answer to the sudden changing of the contemporary world, that force Communication studies to a constant update of theoretical frameworks and research methods – just think to the huge innovation brought by the massive use of social media in micro and macro contexts of communication, involving relations between primary groups as well as dynamics happening in McLuhan’s global village.