List of basic communication topics
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Communication is the process of generation, transmission, or reception of messages to oneself or another entity, usually via a mutually understood set of signs.
The following list of topics is provided as an overview of and introduction to communication:
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[edit] Essence of communication
- Main article: Communication
[edit] Branches of communication
[edit] Fields of communication
- Communication Studies
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Conversation Analysis
- Discourse Analysis
- Interpersonal Communication
- Linguistics
- Mass Communication
- Organizational Communication
- Political Communication
- Pragmatics
- Semiotics
- Sociolinguistics
[edit] Theories, schools, and approaches
- topic communication
- Theories of communication
- Agenda-setting theory
- Content analysis
- Conversation analysis
- Critical theory
- Cues-filtered-out theory
- Cultivation theory
- Cultural studies
- Cybernetics
- Diffusion of innovations
- Dramatism
- Elaboration likelihood model
- Ethnomethodology
- Framing
- Hermeneutics
- Hypodermic needle model
- Heuristic-Systematic Model
- Hyperpersonal Model
- Information theory
- Knowledge gap hypothesis
- Media ecology
- Narrative paradigm
- Network analysis
- Nonviolent Communication
- Opinion leadership
- Political economy
- Priming
- Relational dialectics
- Scheme
- Social learning theory
- Social construction of reality
- Social Identification Mode of Deindividuation Effects (SIDE)
- Social Information Processing theory
- Social Penetration Theory
- Spiral of silence
- Strength of Weak Ties
- Structuralism
- Symbolic interactionism
- Technology acceptance model
- Theory of cognitive dissonance
- Theory of Planned Behavior
- Theory of Reasoned Action
- Third-person effect
- Two-step flow of communication
- Uses and gratifications
- Uncertainty reduction theory
[edit] History of communication
- Main article: History of communication
- Cave painting
- Early postal systems
- Heliograph
- Historical linguistics
- History of alphabet
- History of the book
- History of computer science
- History of computing (see also Timeline of computing)
- History of computer hardware
- History of Internet
- History of linguistics
- History of mass media
- History of radio
- History of telegraphy
- History of telephone
- History of television
- History of writing
- Ideograms
- Origin of language
- Petroglyphs
- Pictograms
- Proto-language
- Semaphore line
- Smoke signals
[edit] Basic communication concepts
[edit] Forms of communication
[edit] Basic modes and types of communication
- Autocommunication
- Empathy
- Computer-mediated communication
- Health communication
- Intrapersonal communication
- Intercultural communication
- Interpersonal communication
- Mass communication
- Non-verbal communication
- Organizational communication
- Persuasion
- Propaganda
- Public speaking
- Reading
- Rhetoric
- Speech
- Translation
- Writing
[edit] Communication industries and media vocations
- Advertising
- Book
- Communication technology
- Computers
- Computer arts
- Computer mediated communication
- Computer networks
- Conversation
- Film
- Graphic arts
- Graphic Design
- Internet
- Journalism
- Library
- Marketing communications
- Mass media
- Media arts
- Morse Code
- News media
- Newspaper
- Printing
- Public Relations
- Radio
- Recording
- Technical writing
- Telecommunications
- Telephone
- Television
- Video
- Writing
[edit] General communication terms
- Censorship
- Cultural imperialism
- Democracy
- Dialectic
- Digital divide
- Freedom of the press
- Freedom of speech
- Hegemony
- Identity
- Imagined community
- Information society
- Late capitalism
- Media imperialism
- Morpheme
- Nationalism
- Phoneme
- Postmodernity
- Public sphere
- Semiotics
- Social capital
- Social network
- Sophist
- Stereotyping
- Stigma
- Syllable
- Universal service
- Avatar (virtual reality)
[edit] Communication scholars
- Theodor Adorno
- Aristotle
- Roland Barthes
- Gregory Bateson
- Walter Benjamin
- Kenneth Burke
- Cicero
- Noam Chomsky
- Karl W. Deutsch
- Walter Fisher
- George Gerbner
- Jürgen Habermas
- Max Horkheimer
- Harold Innis
- Roman Jakobson
- Irving Janis
- Wendell Johnson
- Walter Lippman
- Herbert Marcuse
- George Herbert Mead
- Marshall McLuhan
- Desmond Morris
- Maxwell McCombs
- Walter J. Ong
- Vance Packard
- Charles Peirce
- Plato
- Neil Postman
- Quintilian
- I. A. Richards
- Everett M. Rogers
- Wilbur Schramm
- Claude Shannon
- Deborah Tannen
- James W. Tankard, Jr.
- Warren Weaver
[edit] See also
- Communications worldwide
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- A brief history of communication across ages
- Communicating for change and impact
- How Human Communication Fails (Tampere University of Technology)
