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Understanding Communication Studies
The field of communication studies is notoriously difficult to define as an academic discipline in India. This is due, in part, to the fact that Communication Studies is an inter-discipline that has achieved disciplinary status over the past thirty years all over the world.
Communication Studies brings together elements of the social sciences, humanities and science under one central concern: the study of humans' communicative capacities. This might involve studying the ways in which those capacities have developed and congealed into technologies, social forms and practices. It might involve analyzing the impact of these communicative styles, strategies, and practices on political, cultural and economic development. Communication Studies can include the study of humans' symbolic systems, such as language or images, and the social relations and forms produced through those systems of communication - i.e., culture. It might also involve the systematic study of the production, transmission and reception of communication as information and the institutional arrangements that might coalesce around these processes as specific organizations of knowledge.
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