Concept
communication
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Communication Sciences, Communication Science, Communication Theories, Communications, Communication Studies, Communication Theory, Communication Systems
Parents
Children
Civic EngagementCommunication ActivismCommunication EffectsCommunication Social ChangeComputational Communication
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Language-Driven Telecommunication
1921 - 1932
The period integrates speech science with telecommunication engineering, foregrounding production, perception, and development of speech across speakers and learners and linking to education and cognitive science. Carrier-based modulation and multi-carrier analysis emerge as core methods, examining sidebands, modulation techniques, and signal representation to enhance radio telephony and cable transmissions. System-level infrastructure and measurement frameworks frame long-distance circuits, ship radio extensions, directional antennas, network architectures, and standardized evaluation of transmission performance, including propagation in multi-signal environments. Influential Works: The Meaning of Meaning argued that language and symbols shape thought, catalyzing cross-disciplinary semantics and psycho-linguistics that later informed communication theory. The Art of Rhetoric mapped persuasive language, audience perception, and argument structure, shaping later studies in rhetoric and persuasion, while A Set of Postulates for the Science of Language offered foundational ideas for formal language science. The Immigrant Press and its Control analyzed how dominant groups shaped immigrant media, illuminating press power, censorship, and public opinion; Cipher Printing Telegraph Systems For Secret Wire and Radio Telegraphic Communications foreshadowed secure communications and cryptography.
• Speech and language research forms a central pattern, tracing production, perception, and development across children and adults, with implications for education and cognitive science [9], [13], [16], [17], [18], [20].
• Carrier-based modulation and multi-carrier analysis emerge as a core methodological thread, examining sidebands, modulation techniques, and signal representation to improve radio telephony and cable transmissions [1], [2], [3], [4], [7], [10].
• System-level telecommunications infrastructure is foregrounded through long-distance circuits, ship radio extensions, directional antennas, and network-level transmission architectures [6], [8], [11], [15], [19].
• Measurement, evaluation, and reference frameworks pervade the period, emphasizing quantitative assessment of transmission performance, reference systems, and standardization concerns in telecommunication engineering [7], [14].
• Propagation and multi-signal handling in radio and short-wave regimes reflect exploration of multiple signal environments and navigation-related applications in communication systems [5], [8].
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Information-Theoretic Meaning and Language
1933 - 1962
Media Ecology and Diffusion
1963 - 1972
Pragmatics and Media Communication
1973 - 1979
Media Construction and Persuasion
1980 - 1986
Digital Networked Communication
1987 - 1999
Networked Communication Analytics
2000 - 2006
Networked Sociality and Online Information Dynamics
2007 - 2024