Communication studies or communication science is an academic discipline that deals with processes of human communication and behavior, patterns of communication in interpersonal relationships, social interactions and communication in different cultures.
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Communication science is commonly defined as giving, receiving or exchanging ideas, information, signals or messages through appropriate media, enabling individuals or groups to persuade, to seek information, to give information or to express emotions effectively.
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Communication studies is a social science that uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge that encompasses a range of topics, from face-to-face conversation at a level of individual agency and interaction to social and cultural communication systems at a macro level.
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Communication science researchers draw upon a variety of qualitative and quantitative techniques.
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The social Communication science study was fully recognized as a legitimate discipline after World War II.
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Communication science studies focus on communication as central to the human experience, which involves understanding how people behave in creating, exchanging, and interpreting messages.
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Communication science was the first individual to identify himself as a communication scholar; he created the first academic degree-granting programs with communication in their name; and he trained the first generation of communication scholars.
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Communication science edited a textbook The Process and Effects of Mass Communication that helped define the field, partly by claiming Paul Lazarsfeld, Harold Lasswell, Carl Hovland, and Kurt Lewin as its founding fore fathers.
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The National Society for the Study of Communication was founded in 1950 to encourage scholars to pursue communication research as a social science.
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Communication science research informs politicians and policy makers, educators, strategists, legislators, business magnates, managers, social workers, non-governmental organizations, non-profit organizations, and people interested in resolving communication issues in general.
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