Jel-Kép, 1986 (Special edition)
Foreword (Tamás Szecskő)
Foreword The volume you have in your hand is the fourth one in the series of English special editions of Jel-Kép. (Previous volumes are still available free of charge at request at the Editorial Office: Budapest, P. 0. B. 587. H—1373 Hungary.) Jel-Kép is the quarterly of the Budapest-based Mass Communication Research Centre. It is the only periodical in Hungary focussing on the theoretical problems of mass communication. It addresses questions like the sociology and social psychology of mass communication as well as the theoretical issues of information policy. The present volume includes a selection of writings originally published in Hungarian in the years 1984 through 1986 — with the interests of our readers abroad kept in mind. The editors hope this volume will offer, for lack of a complete overview, at least an idea about the dimensions of work done in the theoretical workshops of mass communication in Hungary. Editor-in-Chief 3