摘要：The word media is used in different meanings to explain events of the political
process in the field of Communication. On the other hand, in Political Sciences,
media has not reached the status of an academic concept or of a variable to be
taken into consideration. What is the relevance of the concept of media for both
areas and, after all, what is the concept of media that researchers have being
talking about in Brazil? This paper discuss what concept of media has being used
in the fields of Communication and Political Sciences, specially in the studies
identified as Communication and Politics and Media and Politics in Brazil.
