Communications

The term communications is used in a number of disciplines:

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• 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:
• # Information transfer, among users or processes, according to agreed conventions (see communications protocol).
• # The branch of technology concerned with the representation, transfer, interpretation, and processing of data among persons, places, and machines also known as information systems.
 
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