The social cohesion is a transversal issue for a great part of the fields of communication studies and of science public communication in Colombia and Latin America. However, the relationship between mass media, disasters and society has been little studied in this national and regional context. It has been even less studied considering crossing approximations of these fields. This paper presents the need to work with objects of study of this nature and they are treated from thematic and methodological points of view, including some possible contributions from science education field. This has the objective to show how an approach to media logics, public logics and knowledge communication presented there, can be useful in preventing disasters.
Mass media; disasters; science communication; communication studies; science education; social cohesion.