Communication basic topics

Below is a list of basic topics in communication -- topics which will help the beginner become familiar with the field of communications. For a comprehensive list, see List of communication topics.

Category:Human communication

General
Alphabet -- Communication -- Communication theory -- Development communication -- Dialectic --Graphic Design-- Information -- Information theory -- Language -- Library -- Printing -- Propaganda -- Public speaking -- Speech -- Sophist -- Symbol -- Semiotics-- Translation -- Writing

Fields
Advertising -- Computer mediated communication -- Journalism -- Marketing communications -- Non-verbal communication -- Organizational communication -- Persuasion -- Public relations -- Rhetoric -- Semiotics -- Telecommunications

People
Theodor Adorno -- Irwin Altman -- Aristotle -- Dean Barnlund -- Roland Barthes -- Gregory Bateson -- Walter Benjamin -- Charles Berger -- Frank Biocca -- Kenneth Burke -- Cicero -- Noam Chomsky -- Hugh Dalziel Duncan -- Karl W. Deutsch -- Walter Fisher -- George Gerbner -- Cees J. Hamelink -- Jürgen Habermas -- Max Horkheimer -- Harold Innis -- Irving Janis -- Wendell Johnson -- Walter Lippman -- Herbert Marcuse -- George Herbert Mead -- Marshall McLuhan -- Desmond Morris -- Maxwell McCombs -- Walter J. Ong -- Vance Packard -- Plato -- Neil Postman -- Quintilian -- I. A. Richards -- Everett M. Rogers -- Wilbur Schramm -- Claude Shannon -- Deborah Tannen -- Dalmas Taylor -- Warren Weaver -- Joe Walther

Media and Technology
Book -- Communication technology -- Computers -- Computer arts -- Computer networks -- Conversation -- Film -- Graphic arts -- Image -- Internet -- Mail -- Mass media -- Media arts --News media -- Net-conferencing -- Newspaper -- Printing -- Radio -- Reacting -- Reading -- Technical writing -- Telephone -- Television -- Video -- Writing

Theories, Schools, and Approaches
Theories of communication -- Agenda-setting theory -- Content analysis -- Conversation analysis -- Critical theory -- Cultivation theory -- Cultural studies -- Cybernetics -- Diffusion of innovations -- Elaboration likelihood model -- Ethnomethodology -- Excitation transfer theory -- Framing -- Hermeneutics -- Hypodermic needle model -- Information theory --Knowledge gap hypothesis -- Learning theory of language -- Limited capacity model -- Media ecology -- Network analysis -- Nonviolent Communication -- Opinion leadership -- Political economy -- Priming -- Scheme -- Social learning theory -- Social construction of reality -- Spiral of silence -- Structuralism -- Symbolic interactionism -- Technology acceptance model -- Theory of cognitive dissonance -- Third-person effect -- Two-step flow of communication -- Uses and gratifications -- Uncertainty reduction theory

Issues and Topics
Cultural imperialism -- Democracy -- Digital divide -- Family communication -- Hegemony -- Identity -- Imagined community -- Information society -- Late capitalism -- Media imperialism -- Micropolitics -- Nationalism -- NetworkAnatomy -- New world information order -- Postmodernity -- Public sphere -- Self -- Social capital -- Social network -- Stereotyping -- Stigma -- Universal service -- Avatar (virtual reality)