Outline of communication

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to communication:

Communication – purposeful activity of exchanging information and meaning across space and time using various technical or natural means, whichever is available or preferred. Communication requires a sender, a message, a medium and a recipient, although the receiver does not have to be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space.

Essence of communication

• Communication theory
• Development communication
• Information
• Information theory
• Semiotics

Branches of communication

Types of communication

Types of communication by scope

• Intercultural communication
• International communication
• Interpersonal communication
• Intrapersonal communication
• Mass communication
• Nonverbal communication
• Verbal communication
• Organizational communication

Types of communication by mode

• Computer-mediated communication
• Conversation
• Mail
• Mass media
  • Book
  • Film
  • Journalism
  • News media
  • Newspaper
  • Technical writing
  • Video
• Telecommunication   (outline)
  • Morse Code
  • Radio
  • Telegraphy
  • Telephone
  • Television
  • Internet
• Verbal communication
• Writing
  • Social Network

Fields of communication

• Communication studies
• Cognitive linguistics
• Conversation analysis
• Crisis communication
• Discourse analysis
• Environmental communication
• Health communication
• Interpersonal communication
• Linguistics
• Mass communication
• Mediated cross-border communication
• Organizational communication
• Political communication
• Pragmatics
• Risk communication
• Science communication
• Semiotics
• Sociolinguistics

Theories, schools, and approaches

Theories of communication

• Agenda-setting theory
• Content analysis
• Community structure theory
• Conversation analysis
• Coordinated management of meaning
• Critical theory
• Cues-filtered-out theory
• Cultivation theory
• Cultural studies
• Cybernetics
• Decision downloading
• Diffusion of innovations
• 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
• Problematic Integration Theory
• Relational dialectics
• Scheme (linguistics)
• Social learning theory
• Social construction of reality
• Social Identity model of Deindividuation Effects (SIDE)
• Social Information Processing theory
• Social Penetration Theory
• Spiral of silence
• 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

History of communication

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 telegraph
• History of telephone
• History of television
• History of writing
• Ideograms
• Origin of language
• Petroglyphs
• Pictograms
• Proto-language
• Semaphore line
• Smoke signals

General communication concepts

General topics of communication

• Autocommunication
• Empathy
• People skills
• Persuasion
• Propaganda
• Public speaking
• Reading
• Rhetoric
• Small-group communication
• Speech
• Translation
• Writing

General communication terms

• Censorship
• Community structure
• 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
• Transactive communication
• Universal service
• Avatar (virtual reality)

Communication scholars

• Theodor Adorno
• Aristotle
• Roland Barthes
• Gregory Bateson
• Walter Benjamin
• Kenneth Burke
• Manuel Castells
• Cicero
• Noam Chomsky
• Karl W. Deutsch
• Walter Fisher
• George Gerbner
• G. Thomas Goodnight
• Jürgen Habermas
• Max Horkheimer
• Harold Innis
• Roman Jakobson
• Irving Janis
• Wendell Johnson
• D. Lawrence Kincaid
• Walter Lippman
• Juri Lotman
• Niklas Luhmann
• Herbert Marcuse
• George Herbert Mead
• Marshall McLuhan
• Desmond Morris
• Maxwell McCombs
• Walter J. Ong
• Vance Packard
• Charles Sanders Peirce
• Chaïm Perelman
• Plato
• Neil Postman
• Nora C. Quebral
• Quintilian
• I. A. Richards
• Everett M. Rogers
• Wilbur Schramm
• Thomas Sebeok
• Claude Shannon
• Deborah Tannen
• James W. Tankard, Jr.
• Warren Weaver
• Bob Woodward

See also

• List of communications-related conferences
• Category:Communication journals

References

External links

• A brief history of communication across ages
• Communicating for change and impact
• How Human Communication Fails (Tampere University of Technology)

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