Communications
Communications (communication studies) is the academic discipline which studies communication; subdisciplines include animal communication, information theory, intrapersonal communication, interpersonal communication, marketing, propaganda, public affairs, public relations, speech communications, and telecommunications.
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History
Various aspects of communicating have long been the subject of human study. In ancient Greece, the study of rhetoric, the art of effective speaking and persuasion, was a vital subject for students. In the early 20th century, many specialists began to study communication as a specific part of their academic disciplines. Communications began to emerge as a distinct academic field in the mid-20th century. Marshall McLuhan was one of the early pioneers.
See also
In telecommunication, the term communications has the following meanings:
- Information transfer, among users or processes, according to agreed conventions (see communications protocol ).
- The branch of technology concerned with the representation, transfer, interpretation, and processing of data among persons, places, and machines also known as information systems.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188