Communication is the exchange of information. Information and communication (IuK) is therefore a recapitulatory term for the human abilities of the data processing and communication. In its technically mediatisierten form as information and communication technologies the pair of terms is used frequently also under the abbreviation IKT.

Origin of these words

In English and French and communication and/or the pertinent verbs designate information inform, more informer and communicate, COMM university crosswise nothing else than the simple report, whereby communication it is still more general and only connection can mean.

In German these words are typical foreign words, which in the colloquial language always by better, i.e. more exact expressions to be replaced can. This-these expressions are also, devoted it from those itself the many different technical meanings, in which information and communication are used in different disciplines.

colloquial meaning

• Information is the activity of informing: communicating, notification or informing.

• Information is the result of informing: the report, message or (passed on) the knowledge.

• Ever more frequently also the activity of the informing becoming or the itself informing is understood by it: understanding, exploring, the knowledge acquisition.

• Information is the result of the itself informing: the knowledge.

• Communication is the activity of communicating: with one another speaking, with one another telephoning, mutual sending of letters, telegrams or enamels.

Languagecritical it is to be marked that the term information does not separate the activity or the procedure always clearly from the result. This leads however more rarely to misunderstandings in the discussion.

Realization critical it is to be marked that the term, and/or the more exact expressions is perhaps even in principle not to be defined usually not, positively: One can only say, what information is not. This leads in all discussions, in which Begriffeine role plays, to illusory problems and alleged paradoxes, if one does not decide itself more exact or deviating terms, which only partly cover the term information, to use. Same applies to the term of communication.

History of the development of the term

• In connection with the invention of computers and the development of telephone networks into the 1940er years with the communication theory and its communication model the information is discovered as measurable mathematical and physical dimension, and wins thereby their large value in the scientific, philosophical and social discussion and practically each scientific discipline develops own communication models. Within the sociology it comes to the development of its own communication science

• Into the 1960er years develops the transaction analysis, an advancement of the psychoanalysis a communication model, which explains very well the disturbances and thus the re-establishment possibilities and retake of communication between humans. Originally a therapy procedure finds it to entrance into marketing.

• Into the 1980er years develops marketing the communication politics in such a way specified. Communication is thereby each contact of a restaurant subject with the external world, which naturally should be planned and examined.

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