Communication theory is a proposed description of communication phenomena, the relationships among them, a storyline describing these relationships, and...

"A Mathematical Theory of Communication" is an article by mathematician Claude E. Shannon published in Bell System Technical Journal in 1948. It was renamed...

competing theories in the study of animal communication are nature theory and nurture theory. Their conflict concerns to what extent animal communication is...

Howard Giles' communication accommodation theory (CAT), "seeks to explain and predict when, how, and why individuals engage in interactional adjustments...

communication is multifaceted and aligns with technological advancements, societal changes, and theories. Traditionally, interpersonal communication is...

Communication privacy management (CPM), originally known as communication boundary management, is a systematic research theory developed by Sandra Petronio...

Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT,), is a theory in the field of crisis communication. It suggests that crisis managers should match strategic...

Intercultural communication is the idea of knowing how to communicate in different parts of the world. Intercultural communication uses theories within groups...

"Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems" is a paper published in 1949 by Claude Shannon discussing cryptography from the viewpoint of information theory...

Communication Theory is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal publishing research articles, theoretical essays, and reviews on topics of broad theoretical...

"Communication Theory as a Field" is a 1999 article by Robert T. Craig, attempting to unify the academic field of communication theory. Craig argues that...

Media richness theory (MRT), sometimes referred to as information richness theory, is a framework used to describe a communication medium's ability to...

receivers. Mass communication has moved from theories including the hypodermic needle model (or magic bullet theory) to more modern theories such as computer-mediated...

communication theory was built upon the frameworks of muted group theory and standpoint theory. The cornerstone of co-cultural communication theory is...

Integrative communication theory is a theory of cross-cultural adaptation proposed by Young Yun Kim. The first widely published version of Kim's theory is found...

gratifications theory is a communication theory that describes the reasons and means by which people seek out media to meet specific needs. The theory postulates...

media advocacy, communication for social change, and community participation. Development communication has been labeled as the "Fifth Theory of the Press"...

approach to communication and became concerned more with the constitutive role of communication in organizing. In the 1990s, the rise of critical theory garnered...

In media studies, mass communication, media psychology, communication theory, and sociology, media influence and the media effect are topics relating...

has also been related to Communication Theory. Mateus (2017), influenced by Derrida's Graphematic Structure of Communication, suggested to see metacommunication...

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distinguish models of communication from theories of communication. This is based on the idea that theories of communication try to provide a more abstract...

Means of communication are used by people to communicate and exchange information with each other as an information sender and a receiver. Many different...

Interpersonal and Family Communication: Feminist Applications of Queer Theory "Beyond the Sexy Streets"". Communication Theory. 23 (2): 170–190. doi:10...

started working on situational crisis communication theory (SCCT) in 1995. Originated from attribution theory, SCCT assumes that crises are negative...

encoding/decoding model of communication emerged in rough and general form in 1948 in Claude E. Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," where it was part...

uncountable mass noun. Information theory is the scientific study of the quantification, storage, and communication of information. The field itself was...

of communication". It has been described as "a linear and Uni-directional process", "a one-way process", an "action model",: 134  a media theory "classic"...

Communication studies (or communication science) is an academic discipline that deals with processes of human communication and behavior, patterns of...

(Crano, 1983; Crano & Prislin, 1995; Sivacek & Crano, 1982) is a communication theory that seeks to explain how an attitude of self-interest can affect...