El campo académico de la comunicación en Colombia y sus tensiones

Abstract

In this essay we intend to analyze the tensions of the academic field of communication, in the professional programs of Communication attached to AFACOM, Colombian Association of Colleges and University Programs of Communication. The research team focused on the analysis of the educational projects of the Faculty or professional undergraduate programs of Social Communication and Journalism, the same as in the educational projects of the universities that are part and to the contents of the courses of communication of these programs. In total eight programs were analyzed communication professionals, all located in the capital of the country. In this project it is assumed to the study of communication as an academic field, as it has defined Pierre Bourdieu; that is to say, the study and training in communication is assumed as a space of forces in which they are presented power struggles and tensions between the different social actors or institutional. In the analysis were found three voltages in the training in the field of communication in Colombia: the first has to do with the nominations and secondments from the field in the classification and the academic relationship with the other subfields. The second voltage is in the relationship between the university projects and projects of the programs. And the third voltage is presented to the interior of the projects of the programs: in terms of the conception of the same field and communication. These tensions show positions of power that directly influence the programs, a close relationship with the market, sum of cultural capitals, primacy of economic capital, difficulty to build educational community, and all of the above calls into question as assume the pressures of the environment, with that capacity, with agents and through that strategies.