Communication theory
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There is much discussion in the academic world of communication as to what actually constitutes communication. Currently, many definitions of communication are used in order to conceptualize the processes by which people navigate and assign meaning. Communication is also understood as the exchanging of understanding.
We might say that communication consists of transmitting information from one person to another. In fact, many scholars of communication take this as a working definition, and use Lasswell's maxim, "who says what to whom in what channel with what effect," as a means of circumscribing the field of communication theory.
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See also
- A Mathematical Theory of Communication
- Jackobson's Communication Model
- List of basic communication topics
- Metacommunicative competence
- Rogerian argument
- Time- and space-bias and Harold Innis's communications theories
- Tetrad of media effects
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