La investigación sobre la comunicación en Francia. Tendencias y carencias.

This article is the result of the papers presented in the conference "Communication in Europe, seeking relationships among research and society", which did not pretend to establish a whole overview about communication research in France but, from different kind of indicators, try to organize a first instance cartography about that subject. Thus, a first exploration outline is presented: conditions of this discipline in France; an analysis of the situation of public organizations related to the subject, as well as of the reviews and new concepts about that topic; it finishes with a discussion lists analysis on those research and communication practices which had been carry out in the Internet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]