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(PDF) "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" by C. E. Shannon (reprint with corrections) hosted by the Harvard Mathematics Department, at Harvard University. Original publications: The Bell System Technical Journal 1948-07: Vol 27 Iss 3. AT & T Bell Laboratories. 1948-07-01. pp. 379– 423., The Bell System Technical Journal 1948-10: Vol 27 ...
The Theory of Communicative Action (German: Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns) is a two-volume 1981 book by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas, in which the author continues his project of finding a way to ground "the social sciences in a theory of language", [1] which had been set out in On the Logic of the Social Sciences (1967).
Howard Giles' communication accommodation theory (CAT), "seeks to explain and predict when, how, and why individuals engage in interactional adjustments with others,” [1] such as a person changing their accent to match the individual they are speaking with.
Bona fide group theory is a theoretical perspective of communication in small groups that was initially developed by Linda Putnam and Cynthia Stohl in the 1990s. [1] Intended to provide communication theorists with a valid model of small groups on which to conduct research, this perspective focuses on the principles of communication that take place within naturally formed social groups. [2]
Mehrabian, born in 1939 to an Armenian family in Iran, initially trained as an engineer, [1] but gained renown for his research on the relative importance of verbal and nonverbal communication.
The Political Economy of Communications is a branch of communication studies or media studies which studies the power relations that shape the communication of information from the mass media to its public. [1]
From 1962 to 1965, Weick was an assistant professor of psychology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.Six months after arriving at Purdue, he received a letter from John C. Flanagan congratulating him on being the 1961-62 Winner of the Best Dissertation of the Year Award in Creative Talent Awards Program sponsored by the American Institutes for Research.
In 1837, Samuel Morse invented the telegraph.The telegraph worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. [7] It was the first mode of communication to eliminate the effect of distance, allowing for a near instantaneous connection. [8]