Communication Theory

Communication Theory
The idea of communication has been around for thousands of years and was first referred to as "rhetoric." In Aristotle's early studies "The Art of Rhetoric," the early forms of communication are seen in his description of the composition of a speech and its three parts. However, the three parts that make up communication for a company are different than a speech. The aspects of communication for a company involve: the organization, the constituency, and the message.

Claude E. Shannon
Claude E. Shannon is known as the father of information theory. Over the many years that Claude E. Shannon studied information theory he published a number of very influential theories that are still being used today. A few of these included; “A Mathematical Theory of Communication, Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems and A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits." In his writing of "A Mathematical Theory of Communications," Shannon states that, “The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point." He later went on to publish many other theories and studies on communication that were influential in breaking codes in World War Two, and were the reason for some of the earliest artificial intelligence.

Related links
Communication Theories
www.nvcc.edu/TVCENTER/Communication_Theories.htm.
Defining Communication Theories
www.mhhe.com/mayfieldpub/westturner/student_resources/theories.htm
Claude Shannon
www.nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/courses/v610003/shan.html