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The following [[Outline (list)|outline]] is provided as an overview of and topical guide to communication:

'''[[Communication]]''' &ndash; 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.

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== 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]] &nbsp; ([[Outline of 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|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 (social sciences)|Framing]]
*[[Hermeneutics]]
*[[Hypodermic needle model]]
*[[Heuristic-Systematic Model]]
*[[Hyperpersonal Model]]
*[[Information theory]]
*[[Knowledge gap hypothesis]]
*[[Media ecology]]
*[[Narrative paradigm]]
*[[Social network analysis|Network analysis]]
*[[Nonviolent Communication]]
*[[Opinion leadership]]
*[[Political economy]]
*[[Priming (psychology)|Priming]]
*[[Problematic integration theory|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]]
* [[Mail#history of postal systems|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]]
* [[Mass media#History|History of mass media]]
* [[History of radio]]
* [[Telegraphy|History of telegraphy]]
** [[Electrical telegraph#History|History of telegraph]]
* [[Telephone#History|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 (activity)|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 (social science)|Identity]]
*[[Imagined community]]
*[[Information society]]
*[[Late capitalism]]
*[[Media imperialism]]
*[[Morpheme]]
*[[Nationalism]]
*[[Phoneme]]
*[[Postmodernity]]
*[[Public sphere]]
*[[Semiotics]]
*[[Social capital]]
*[[Social network]]
*[[Sophist]]
*[[Stereotyping]]
*[[Social stigma|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 (professor)|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==
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== External links ==
{{sister project links|Communication}}

* [http://static.scribd.com/docs/3ji6hh6c1s9f6.swf A brief history of communication across ages]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927224727/http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/communicating/Communicating_for_change_and_impact.doc   Communicating for change and impact]
* [https://jkorpela.fi/wiio.html How Human Communication Fails] (Tampere University of Technology)

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