Communications

The term communications is used in a number of disciplines:

• Communications, also known as communication studies is the academic discipline which studies communication. See also: Media studies.
• In geography, communications are the physical routes (roads, rivers, canals, railways, etc.) travelled by people in order to interact with each other. See also: transportation.
• In telecommunication, the term communications has the following meanings:
  1. Information transfer, among users or processes, according to agreed conventions (see communications protocol).
  2. The branch of technology concerned with the representation, transfer, interpretation, and processing of data among persons, places, and machines also known as information systems.

See also

• Communications channel
• Communication
• Constructivism

See also: Communications, Academic discipline, Canal, Communication, Communication studies, Communications channel, Communications protocol, Constructivism, Data