WHAT IS COMMUNICATION?

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/