Topic outline of communication

Topic outline of communication

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 outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to communication:

Essence of communication

: "Main article: Communication"

*Communication theory
*Development communication
*Information
*Information theory
*Semiotics

Branches of communication

Fields of communication

*Communication Studies
*Cognitive Linguistics
*Conversation Analysis
*Discourse Analysis
*Interpersonal Communication
*Linguistics
*Mass Communication
*Organizational Communication
*Political Communication
*Pragmatics
*Semiotics
*Sociolinguistics

Theories, schools, and approaches

*Theories of communication
*Agenda-setting theory
*Biosemiotics
*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

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

Basic communication concepts

Forms of communication

*Alphabet
*Body language
*Emotion
*Image
*Language
*Symbol

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
*Small-group communication
*Speech
*Translation
*Writing

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
*Mail
*Marketing communications
*Mass media
*Media arts
*Morse Code
*News media
*Newspaper
*Printing
*Public Relations
*Radio
*Recording
*Small-group communication
*Technical writing
*Telecommunications
*Telephone
*Television
*Video
*Writing

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)

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

See also

* Communications worldwide

External links

* [http://static.scribd.com/docs/3ji6hh6c1s9f6.swf A brief history of communication across ages]
* [http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/communicating/Communicating_for_change_and_impact.doc Communicating for change and impact]
* [http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/wiio.html How Human Communication Fails] (Tampere University of Technology)


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