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In this paper, I discuss the scientific possibilities of communication. The debate focuses on some aspects of the epistemology of communication epistemology and of the construction of a general science to explain social reality and culture. In this essay, I present the main arguments for those who regard scientificity as a possibility or as a vain enterprise. In the second part, I review ample visions of communication by those who call themselves "communicologists"; that is, scientists who have mainly reflected on communication, from outside communication studies. Finally, I explain why communication has become the area of inquiry that leads to the temptation of regarding it as the meeting point of sciences, whose object is information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article tries to open the reflection around the multiple possibilities that Communication Science offers to the study of the city. At a first moment, the author exposes the conceptual proposal of the Comunicology, and his first joints with the city. Later, the paper presents some of the main characteristics of the city and "the urban thing" as study objects, with special emphasis in the contributions of Communication Science, that impel the approach to the city like communication system and media construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]