Jel-Kép, 1984 (Special edition)
Dear Reader, the volume what we hand over to you is a biennial'^ English-language, special edition of the 3el-Kép. The regular version of the quarterly, published by the Mass Communication Research Center, is a professional review of communication scholars and communicators in Hungary. In order to overcome the linguistic isolation, every second year the editors compile an English edition of those essays, studies and articles of the last eight issues, which were written by staff-members of the Center, and which are based mostly on research-work going on there. So the content of this special issue represents more thfe scholarly work of the Mass Communication Research Center than the average content of the quarterly itself. The Mass Communication Research Center was established just 15 years ago by the Hungarian Radio and Television, Since that time it has grown into the largest survey center in Hungary, involved both in communication and in public opinion research. With its four research units and supporting departments, consisting more than 80 staff-members (of which about 30 are researchers: sociologists, psychologists, economists. Jurists, linguists and mathematicians)", it mostly conducts policy oriented studies, but it is also engaged in basic', theoretical research. The long-term rssearch strategy of the Center (published, in a concise version'; in the 1982 Special Edition) delineates 3