Communication and sociabilility - perspectives in the field of Communication

Abstract The aim of this paper is to map authors and theories used as reference by researchers in the field of Communication and Sociability in Brazil. The selected corpus includes 98 articles from Compós during the period from 2006 to 2015, collected from the homonymous working group. These results integrate a broader research that aims to identify the contemporary theories that underpin the field of Communication in the country. The analysis highlights two central axes in the studies regarded in this area: the subject itself (the question of subjectivity, autonomy and oppression); the society in which it is inscribed (capitalist society, society of classes, but also the network society formed by the new technological devices).