This document summarizes the key points of a presentation on the philosophy of social sciences and the placement of mass communication within philosophical traditions. It discusses concepts like ontology, epistemology, axiology, and how different philosophical perspectives like positivism, interpretivism, and critical theory understand the social world. It then analyzes how various "isms" and mass media depictions relate to concepts like solipsism, atomism, ethnocentrism, rationalism, and multiculturalism. Hollywood films are discussed as an example of how perspectives can change based on events like 9/11. The document aims to understand mass communication through different lenses in the philosophy of social sciences.