What is Publikon?

The fast informational and technological innovations of the last fifty years have generated great public
interest towards sciences, including social sciences. Those interesting researches and workshops,
which previously had been known to only a restricted number of people, can be published and made
readable within minutes through the internet, and they can be edited in printed and electronic versions,
too.
Regarding the innovations and expectations, the Publikon portal intends to find answers to the social
challenges of the 21st century, meeting scientific demands. It wishes to collect and systematise them
by processing primarily written materials (studies, essays, keynote publications, theses, dissertations)
produced in higher education institutions, and also studies, analyses, discourses, reviews written by
researchers. On the other hand, with the wish to spread knowledge to a wide audience, it will aim to
reveal historical and topical, exciting and gripping topics from the field of social sciences.
Why was Publikon established?
Publikon, which is a publisher and portal for social sciences, considers the needs of numerous target
groups and thereby it intends to become a useful point of reference both for researchers and for those
who would like to read or come undone. The information to be found on the website will be
searchable by a conscious syllabus and structure, sorted in the following groups:
Media watch interesting topics mostly from the international media
Country reviews: political, economic, social and historical analyses about countries, regions
and regional co-operations
The Third and Fourth World; the phenomena of globalisation; problems of Africa and Asia;
Near East and Middle East; Latin America
Interesting political, historical and sociological analyses, studies
Politics of the European Union
Minority policy, minority protection and the questions of identity
The role of media in shaping politics a fourth branch of power?
Political marketing and political communication
Book commendatory and reviews
Programme recommendations and news about topical events (conferences, meetings,
discussions)
Reports, interviews, background analyses of current topics
In the past decade in the United States and in Western Europe the exclusively online scientific
publications have been visited very frequently, and they are becoming popular in our country as well.
Surveys reveal that about two thirds of internet users read news and studies on the net. This rate will
most probably increase in the future, just like the need to find material from acknowledged sources
with a reliable academic background. We aim at developing our portal according to these needs.
There are an increasing number of people also in Hungary who read in foreign languages therefore it is
particularly important that from time to time we publish materials in English, German, French and
other languages. For the sake of this we wish to strengthen the co-operation between young Central
European social scientists and we plan to generate mutual researches and projects.