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This text analyzes and examines theoretically and empirically what is now a matter of a serious discussion in the national academic environment around the production, diffusion and dissemination of scientific academic research: Do basic research activities contribute significantly to the progress in training of specialized personnel? If so, what role do academic diffusion products have as a teaching strategy in the area of communication studies in undergraduate and graduate programs? The objective was to evaluate the internal consistency and reliability of a theoretical scale that measures the production and scientific diffusion of communication in the higher education environment. A questionnaire with thirteen manifest variables was applied in a sample of 66 undergraduate and graduate professors in the area of Communication Sciences in a public university in of Mexico. The results confirm that a reliable instrument was available with data consistent with the validity of the scale. The evidence presented concludes that there are some causes to explain why undergraduate and graduate professional teaching and training are disconnected from research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a way to characterize the social representations that have students of the Degree in Communication from the Faculty of Arts and Communication at the University of Colima, about the meaning, the importance and the usefulness of research in their formation process arises professional. The research was conducted with a qualitative and phenomenological approach based on the use of discussion groups, whose implementation allowed to know the meanings and social representations that build students about career They are studying and research as part of their training. The results show that students have a great semantic richness and strong personal involvement that grants, research, an important role as curricular component, but parallel has a low recognition as an option for those pursuing professional career development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to identify and interpret the latest trends of development of scholarly research and graduate programs in communication in Mexico. Reference data are placed within the contexts best suited to discuss whether the characterization of this academic field as subject to multiple disarticulation is also subject to conditions of "concentrated stagnation" or "post-disciplinary" evolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]