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 Email 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)