- "Communication is usually defined as the transmission of information."
This topic covers the basic steps involved in the communication process, including encoding, decoding, and feedback.
Models of Communication: This topic covers the different models of communication, such as the linear model, transactional model, and interactive model, and explains how each model functions.
Channels of Communication: This topic focuses on the different channels of communication, such as verbal, nonverbal, and visual communication, and explains how each channel affects the communication process.
Communication Styles: This topic covers the different communication styles, such as assertive, aggressive, and passive, and explains how each style affects communication.
Communication Barriers: This topic focuses on the various communication barriers, such as language barriers, cultural barriers, and psychological barriers, and explains how to overcome them.
Nonverbal Communication: This topic covers the various nonverbal cues used in communication, such as facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice, and how to interpret them.
Listening Skills: This topic covers the importance of good listening skills in effective communication, as well as different techniques and strategies for improving listening skills.
Interpersonal Communication: This topic focuses on the communication that occurs between individuals or groups, such as family members or coworkers, and how to improve it.
Intercultural Communication: This topic covers the challenges and benefits of communication across different cultural backgrounds and provides strategies for improving intercultural communication.
Communication Research Methods: This topic covers the different research methods used in communication research, such as surveys, experiments, and content analysis, and how to apply them to communication studies.
Communication Ethics: This topic covers the ethical considerations involved in communication, such as honesty, respect, and privacy, and how to practice ethical communication in different contexts.
Organizational Communication: This topic focuses on the communication that occurs within organizations, including communication structures, networks, and processes.
Crisis Communication: This topic covers the communication strategies used in crisis situations, such as natural disasters, accidents, or outbreaks, and how to manage them effectively.
Mass Communication: This topic focuses on the communication that occurs through mass media, such as television, radio, or social media, and its impact on society and culture.
Health Communication: This topic covers the communication strategies used in healthcare contexts, such as doctor-patient communication, health promotion, and disease prevention.
Political Communication: This topic focuses on the communication that occurs in political and government contexts, such as election campaigns, public debates, and policy-making.
Public Relations: This topic covers the strategies used in public relations, such as reputation management, crisis communication, and media relations, and how to apply them in different contexts.
Advertising and Marketing Communication: This topic focuses on the communication strategies used in advertising and marketing, such as branding, storytelling, and persuasive communication.
Communication Technology: This topic covers the impact of communication technology, such as social media, smartphones, and the internet, on communication processes and behaviors.
Cross-Cultural Communication: This topic covers communication across different cultures and languages, including the challenges and benefits of cross-cultural communication.
Gender and Communication: This topic focuses on the different communication styles and patterns associated with gender and how to communicate effectively across gender lines.
Interpersonal Communication Process: This type involves the exchange of information between two or more people through verbal and nonverbal channels.
Group Communication Process: This type includes the communication between three or more individuals in a larger setting.
Organizational Communication Process: This type involves the flow of information within an organization, which can involve communication between employees, managers, and clients.
Mass Communication Process: This type includes communication through mass media channels such as television, radio, print media, and the internet.
Telecommunication Process: This type includes the various modes of communication using technological devices like a telephone, mobile, fax, and video conferencing.
Intercultural Communication Process: This type involves communication between individuals or groups from different cultural backgrounds.
Nonverbal Communication Process: This type encompasses the types of communication channels that are based on non-linguistic factors like facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice.
Intrapersonal Communication Process: This type includes the internal dialogue that takes place within an individual's mind.
Visual Communication Process: This type includes communication channels that use visual elements such as images, videos, and graphics.
Advertising Communication Process: This type involves the communication of persuasive messages intended to influence consumer behavior.
- "The precise definition of communication is disputed."
- "Many models include the idea that a source uses a coding system to express information in the form of a message." - "The source uses a channel to send the message to a receiver who has to decode it in order to understand its meaning."
- "Communication can be classified based on whether information is exchanged between humans, members of other species, or non-living entities such as computers."
- "Verbal communication involves the exchange of messages in linguistic form." - "Non-verbal communication happens without the use of a linguistic system."
- "There are many forms of non-verbal communication, for example, using body language, body position, touch, and intonation."
- "Interpersonal communication happens between distinct persons, such as greeting someone on the street or making a phone call."
- "Intrapersonal communication, on the other hand, is communication with oneself."
- "Researchers in this field often formulate additional criteria for their definition of communicative behavior." - "Example are the requirement that the behavior serves a beneficial function for natural selection and that a response to the message is observed."
- "Animal communication plays important roles for various species in the areas of courtship and mating, parent-offspring relations, social relations, navigation, self-defense, and territoriality."
- "An often-discussed example concerning navigational communication is the waggle dance used by bees to indicate to other bees where flowers are located."
- "Due to the rigid cell walls of plants, their communication often happens through chemical means rather than movement."
- "For example, plants like maple trees release so-called volatile organic compounds into the air to transmit warning signals about a herbivore attack to other plants."
- "The reason is that its purpose, as a tool, is usually some form of cooperation, which is not as common between different species."
- "For example, many flowers use symmetrical shapes and colors that stand out from their surroundings in order to signal to insects where nectar is located to attract them."
- "Communicative competence is the ability to communicate well."
- "Two central aspects are that the communicative behavior is effective, i.e. that it achieves the individual's goal, and that it is appropriate, i.e. that it follows social standards and expectations."
- "Human communication has a long history and how people exchange information has changed over time."
- "Examples are the invention of writing systems, the development of mass printing, the use of radio and television, and the invention of the internet."
- "The field of communication includes various other issues, like communicative competence and the history of communication."