The term communications is used in a number of disciplines:

• Communications, also known as communication studies is the academic discipline which studies communication, generally seen as a mixture between media studies and linguistics.
• In geography, communications are the physical routes (roads, rivers, canals, railways, etc.) travelled by people in order to interact with each other. See also: transport.
• In telecommunication, the term communications has the following meanings:
  1. Information transfer, among users or processes, according to agreed conventions (see communications protocol).
  2. The branch of technology concerned with the representation, transfer, interpretation, and processing of data among persons, places, and machines also known as information systems.

Communication studies is the academic discipline that studies communication; subdisciplines include animal communication, argumentation, speech communication, rhetoric, communication theory, group communication, information theory, intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, intrapersonal communication, marketing, organizational communication, persuasion, propaganda, public affairs, public relations and telecommunication. ... This is a list of academic disciplines (and academic fields). ... // Communication is the process of exchanging information, usually via a common system of symbols. ... Media studies is a social science that studies the nature and effects of mass media upon individuals and society, as well as analysing actual media content and representations. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. ... A typical rural county road in Indiana, USA, where traffic drives on the right. ... The Murray River in Australia. ... The Canal du Midi in Toulouse, France Canals are man-made waterways, usually connecting existing lakes, rivers, or oceans. ... BlackBerry 7100t Telecommunication refers to communication over long distances. ... In telecommunications, information transfer is the process of moving messages containing user information from a source to a sink. ... This article concerns communication between pairs of electronic devices. ... See also: Innovation By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a level of technological mastery sufficient to leave the surface of the planet for the first time and explore space. ... DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) was established in 2002 by Bono (Paul Hewson) of the Rock band U2, and Bobby Shriver, along with activists from the Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt Campaign, as an organisaton focused on Justice, not charity. ... The term information system has the following meanings: 1. ...

See also

• Channel (communications)
• Communication
• Constructivism
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