Communication as media: medias, technology, society and language

It is possible to say that the domain of Communication studies, already perfectly set up, keeps on discussing its nature as an area of knowledge. Also, it is reasonable to assert that a knowlodge field must have especifications that assure it as an autonomous study area. Considering these premises, this article intends to debate, in a brief way, a possible delimitation concerning communication studies. As an alternative, it conceives communication as a process shaped by the mass media. Therefore, it recognizes the medias fundamental position, here understood as mass communication electro-technological devices, which allows a plural and simultaneous access to the messages that it produces. From than on, the variable relations between language and society that it makes possible.