The
discipline of communication focuses on how people use messages to generate
meanings within and across various contexts, cultures, channels, and
media. The discipline promotes the effective and ethical practice of human
communication.
Communication
is a diverse discipline which includes inquiry by social scientists, humanists,
and critical and cultural studies scholars. A body of scholarship and
theory, about all forms of human communication, is presented and explained in
textbooks, electronic publications, and academic journals.
In
the journals, researchers report the results of studies that are the basis for
an ever-expanding understanding of how we all communicate.
Reference:
National
Communication Association. (n.d.). What is Communication. Retrieved from http://www.natcom.org/discipline/