Studying media in the Czech Republic: past and presence of czech media studies

In the following text we will try to offer more or less chronologically the organized development of Czech intellectual interest in media with more systematic insight in establishing the inquiry of media as a self-conscious academic field. The text is divided into three chapters. In the first chapter, the early stage of reflections on media is described, including the first steps towards institutionalization of studying media made during the interwar period 1918–38.