About

About the journal

Presentation, aims and scope

A biannual thematic review, Communications was created in the autumn of 1961 by Georges Friedmann, Roland Barthes, and Edgar Morin. It has established itself as a reference in the field of the study of mass communications and semiological analyses in France, and has rapidly been acclaimed on the global scale. Since the 1980s, it has broadened its themes to include anthropo-social issues. It provides unpublished articles by both renowned scientists and junior researchers, opening up new avenues of research and promoting a high degree of transdisciplinarity. More than 1,500 contributions are now directly accessible, including, among many others, articles by Theodor W. Adorno, Roland Barthes, Umberto Eco, Moses Finley, Philippe Ariès, Tzvetan Todorov, Félix Guattari, Serge Moscovici, Mary Douglas, Clifford Geertz, Jacques Le Goff…

The journal Communications is published by the Laboratoire d’anthropologie critique interdisciplinaire (LACI), a research team within the LAP, Laboratoire d’anthropologie politique (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS / École des hautes études en sciences sociales, EHESS). It is edited and distributed by Editions du Seuil. The journal is supported by the Institute of Human and Social Sciences of the CNRS (INSHS) and the National Book Centre (CNL).

 

All issues of Communications are built around a theme. They aim to make the disciplines communicate and to define new research directions.

  • Follow this link for direct access to Communications issues available in print and online, indexed by year and theme.

Online Access

The issues of the journal Communications published since 1961 are now available online,
in open access on Persée [view the Communications collection on this portal] and on Cairn,
except for the latest issues, wich are available in restricted access (on an article basis) on Cairn (embargo period with access to subscribers via Cairn platform : 1 year).

ISSN

— Communications (Paris. 1962), ISSN 0588-8018 (print)
— Communications (Paris), ISSN 2102-5924 (online)