传播学是20世纪40年代兴起的一门新兴学科,60年代开始风靡北美和西欧而成为一门显学,许多大学纷纷创办传播学科。[2]亚洲的传播教育发展迅速,不少地区纷纷扩充和建立传播院系,购置先进的设备,招收大量的学生,传播教育工作者更是信心十足,这种状况在台湾,香港,新加坡及韩国地区尤为明显。[3]20世纪80年代以来,传播学在中国成为一门重要的新兴学科,主要研究大众传媒,1995年,一些高校开始招收传播学方向的硕士研究生, Communication Studies was a new discipline emerging in the 1940s. It began to flourish in North America and Western Europe in the 1960s and became a significant school. Many universities have set up their own communication disciplines. In Asia, the dissemination of education is developing rapidly. In many areas, there have been many expansion and establishment of communication departments, acquisition of advanced equipment, recruitment of a large number of students, and the spread of educators. This situation is also felt in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea is particularly obvious. Since the 1980s, Communication Studies has become an important emerging subject in China. It mainly studies the mass media. In 1995, some colleges and universities began to recruit master’s students in the field of communication studies.