Area
social Sciences
Sub-Discipline
Journalism and Communications
University of Chile
- City: Santiago,
- Municipality: Ñuñoa,
- Region: Metropolitan Region
goals
1.- To train students capable of conducting research that contributes creatively and significantly to addressing the most current problems in communication, from a transdisciplinary perspective.
2.- To develop in students the abilities to observe, problematize and analyze communication phenomena and problems.
3.- To generate methodological and theoretical skills that allow students to develop applied research with high standards of scientificity.
Applicant Profile
Those who meet the following requirements can apply to this program:
a) Hold a bachelor's degree or professional title whose level, content and duration of studies correspond to training equivalent to that of a bachelor's degree at the University of Chile, as determined by the corresponding Academic Committee, and
b) Demonstrate prior training relevant to the aims and requirements of the program to which you are applying. The program's Academic Committee may require that, in addition to reviewing your background, your knowledge and skills in the program's disciplines be evaluated. This evaluation may consist of an examination or other mechanisms that objectively verify your level of preparation.
Graduate profile
Graduates of the Master's in Communication are professionals capable of producing and reflectively using high-level academic theoretical and methodological knowledge to understand and address the most current communication problems in contemporary societies, from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Lines of investigation
1.- Identity and Culture.
This line of inquiry encompasses all processes in which communication is articulated as language, a tool, and an action within the identity processes that shape cultural and social relationships. It addresses identity constructions in which communication is key, particularly the intersectionality of gender, life stages, parameters such as urban/rural location, migration, ethnicity, and interculturality, among others.
2.- Visuals.
This line of research has two main currents. On the one hand, it aims to identify the mechanisms of visual messages through textual analysis, with semiotics as its central focus. On the other hand, it seeks to establish the social and political dimensions of the diverse ways of seeing, imaginaries, and repertoires present in contemporary culture.
3.- Cultural Industries.
This area studies the institutions and processes of cultural production, distribution, and consumption, focusing on understanding and problematizing the patterns of continuity and change in industrialized cultural production. From this perspective, communication is approached as a field embedded within cultural production, where forms of production, circulation, and consumption are contested through diverse discursive and material practices (mass media, cultural management, social networks, among others).
4.- Communication and Power.
In this area of research, communication is considered an articulator of discourses capable of influencing the decision-making arena. It is understood here as an interdisciplinary field in which theories, schools of thought, and approaches interact, and in which power—as a contestation of the perceptible world—takes on diverse forms of manifestation: discourses, political campaigns, press coverage, strategic communication, memory, and so on.
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