Wikipedia:Communication basic topics

These should be the most basic topics in the field--topics about which we'd like to have articles soon. Please see the most basic encyclopedia article topics for general instructions on constructing this list, and consult complete list of encyclopedia topics.

Table of contents 1 General 2 People 3 Media and Technology 4 Theories, Schools, and Approaches 5 Issues and Topics

General

Alphabet -- Communication -- Communication theory -- Dialetic[?] -- General Semantics -- Information -- Information theory -- Journalism -- Language -- Library -- Persuasion -- Printing -- Propaganda -- Public speaking -- Speech -- Rhetoric -- Semiotics -- Sophist -- Symbol -- Translation -- Development Support Communication[?]

People

Aristotle -- Charles Berger[?] -- Cicero -- Claude Shannon -- Dalmas Taylor[?] -- George Herbert Mead[?] -- I. A. Richards[?] -- Irving Janis[?] -- Irwin Altman[?] -- Marshall McLuhan -- Noam Chomsky -- Plato -- Quintilian -- Roland Barthes -- Walter Fisher[?] -- Warren Weaver[?]

Media and Technology Book -- Communication technology[?] -- Computer network -- Image -- Internet -- Film -- Mail -- Mass media -- News media[?] -- Newspaper -- Radio -- Telephone -- Television -- Video -- Writing -- Redacting[?] -- Technical writing[?]

Theories, Schools, and Approaches

Knowledge gap hypothesis[?] -- Two-step flow of communication[?] -- Opinion leadership[?] -- Hypodermic needle model[?] -- Uses and gratifications[?] -- Elaboration of likelihood model[?] -- Excitation transfer theory[?] -- Priming[?] -- Limited capacity model[?] -- Framing -- Scheme -- Spiral of silence[?] -- Diffusion of innovation[?] -- Technology acceptance model[?] -- Social learning theory[?] -- Theory of cognitive dissonance[?]

Ethnomethodology[?] -- Content analysis[?] -- Conersation analysis[?] -- Symbolic interactionism[?] -- Structuralism -- Critical theory -- Cultural studies -- Network analysis[?] -- Political economy -- Media ecology[?] -- Cybernetics

Issues and Topics

Digital divide -- Information society -- New world information order[?] -- Universal service[?] -- Late capitalism -- Imagined community[?] -- Micropolitics[?] -- Hegemony -- Globalization -- Postmodernity -- Self -- Family communication[?] -- Social network[?] -- Social capital -- Public sphere[?] -- Democracy -- Identity -- Gender role -- Nationalism -- Cultural imperialism