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communications

the discipline that studies the principles of transmitting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.)

In a sentence

Six example sentences with communications, each labelled with its topic.

  • She switched her major to communications after a seminar on how radio, print, and video each shape a message.

    Technology

  • The department teaches communications alongside political science, since campaigns now study how each channel carries a message.

    Politics

  • Film students take one term of communications to learn how the same story travels differently through print, radio, and screen.

    Movies

  • She studied communications for four years and now runs the press office, choosing which announcements go by radio and which by print.

    Business

  • The cofounder with a communications degree wrote every launch announcement, matching each message to the channel that would carry it.

    Startups

  • The communications department shares a corridor with psychology, since both study how a message lands differently on paper and on screen.

    Psychology

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