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Investigation Units

Social Sciences

Communication Research Center (CICOM, for its acronym in Spanish)

The Communication Research Center (CICOM) of the University of Costa Rica is dedicated to research, analysis, interpretation, participation, advice and dissemination around Communication processes, seen as a discipline and social practice. 

The work of the center provides inputs for a better understanding of communicative phenomena and for the search for solutions to local, national and regional problems, promoting inter and multidisciplinary dialogue through cooperation with other research centers, communities, organized groups, institutions. , organizations and diverse sectors. 

Given the emergency that the disinfodemic has created, with the multiplication of platforms and formats for the circulation of content and with the saturation of voices with very varied interests, research and new proposals from Communication are key in policies, strategies and actions towards social well-being.

Objectives

  • To promote research in communication in all its dimensions and to contribute to its development in the context of Social Sciences of the country.
  • To encourage trans and interdisciplinary research in the field of communication.
  • To link research in communication with the needs and contributions of Costa Rican society in different areas.
  • To integrate activities developed at the Center into teaching and social outreach at the School of Communication Sciences and the Graduate Program in Communication.
  • To strengthen research skills of people related to CICOM, both as researchers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students, and other social actors.
  • To facilitate support and advice of academic research to institutions and social bodies that require it, establishing the pertinent rules to reach this objective.
  • To establish cooperative relations with institutions, agencies and national and international organizations related to the Center’s work, in accordance with the possibilities and norms established by the Center and the University of Costa Rica.
  • To promote dissemination and socialization of the research carried out at the Center using different channels.

Main functions

  • The functions of CICOM are those derived from Article 125 of the Organic Statute, Article 1 of the General Regulations of Institutes and Research Centers and Experimental Stations, and those mentioned in the previous section.

Services

Remunerated

  • No paid services.

Non Remunerated

  • None