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The list Communication scholars includes Melissa Satta, Noam Chomsky, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno and Roland Barthes. The list consists of 62 members and 4 sublists.

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Communication
Act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and rules
  • 1.

    Melissa Satta
    Italian, TV Personality
    Melissa Satta
    Overview: Melissa Satta (born 7 February 1986) is an Italian television presenter. She was a showgirl in the Italian satirical series Striscia la notizia. Satta has appeared in Maxim magazine and was featured in ...
    Date of birth: 7 February 1986
    Age: 39
    Nationality: Italian
    Occupation: TV Personality
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)
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    Mass media people from Boston 35T
    Wives and girlfriends of association football players 305T
    American women television hosts 188T
  • 2.

    Noam Chomsky
    American linguist and activist (born 1928)
    Noam Chomsky
    Overview: Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American philosopher, linguist, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics" ...
    Date of birth: 7 December 1928
    Age: 96
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Linguist
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
    Partner: Valeria Wasserma (Married)
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    Philosophers of linguistics 3T
    American dissidents 15T
    Jewish linguists 13T
  • 3.

    Theodor W. Adorno
    German philosopher
    Theodor W. Adorno
    Overview: Theodor W. Adorno (born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, psychologist, musicologist, and composer known for his critical theory of ...
    Date of birth: 11 September 1903
    Date of death: 10 September 1969
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Composer
    Gender: Male
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    Jewish musicologists 26T
    Founders of philosophical traditions 43T
    Jewish anti-fascists 113T
  • 4.

    Roland Barthes
    French philosopher
    Roland Barthes
    Overview: Roland Gérard Barthes (12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes's ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced ...
    Date of birth: 12 November 1915
    Date of death: 25 March 1980
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century French non-fiction writers 418T
    French male essayists 241T
    Philosophers of literature 95T
  • 5.

    Walter Benjamin
    German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
    Walter Benjamin
    Overview: Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism ...
    Date of birth: 15 July 1892
    Date of death: 27 September 1940
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    German Marxist writers 13T
    19th-century German Jews 569T
    20th-century German Jews 165T
  • 6.

    I. A. Richards
    English literary critic
    I. A. Richards
    Overview: Ivor Armstrong Richards (26 February 1893 – 7 September 1979), known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, and rhetorician. His work contributed to the foundations of the New Cr ...
    Date of birth: 26 February 1893
    Date of death: 7 September 1979
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Critic
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    Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy 515T
    People educated at Clifton College 456T
    People from Sandbach 23T
  • 7.

    Max Horkheimer
    German philosopher and sociologist (1895–1973)
    Max Horkheimer
    Overview: Max Horkheimer (14 February 1895 – 7 July 1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist who was famous for his work in critical theory as a member of the Frankfurt School of social research. Horkheimer ...
    Date of birth: 14 February 1895
    Date of death: 7 July 1973
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    Writers from Stuttgart 53T
    Jewish anti-fascists 113T
    Philosophers of economics 73T
  • 8.

    Herbert Marcuse
    philosopher and sociologist
    Herbert Marcuse
    Overview: Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-American philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse ...
    Date of birth: 19 July 1898
    Date of death: 29 July 1979
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Burials at the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery 6T
    People of the United States Office of War Information 175T
    American anti-capitalists 93T
  • 9.

    Douglas Rushkoff
    American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian
    Douglas Rushkoff
    Overview: Douglas Mark Rushkoff (born February 18, 1961) is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, and documentarian. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk ...
    Date of birth: 18 February 1961
    Age: 64
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    Open-source movement 6T
    21st-century American essayists 363T
    Internet theorists 9T
  • 10.

    Paul Martin Lester
    American academic
    Paul Martin Lester
    Overview: Paul Martin Lester (born March 21, 1953) is a Clinical Professor at the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication (ATEC) and a Professor Emeritus from California State University, Fullerton ...
    Date of birth: 21 March 1953
    Date of death: 12 November 2023
    Age: 70 (age at death)
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    Moody College of Communication alumni 124T
    University of Texas at Dallas faculty 51T
    California State University, Fullerton faculty 47T
  • 11.

    Kenneth Burke
    American philosopher
    Kenneth Burke
    Overview: Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993) was an American literary theorist, as well as poet, essayist, and novelist, who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical ...
    Date of birth: 5 May 1897
    Date of death: 19 November 1993
    Age: 96 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Critic
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    Columbia College (New York) alumni 1,291T
    American rhetoricians 35T
    People from Andover, New Jersey 5T
  • 12.

    Irving Janis
    American psychologist
    Overview: Irving Lester Janis (May 26, 1918 – November 15, 1990) was a research psychologist at Yale University and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley most famous for his theory of " ...
    Date of birth: 26 May 1918
    Date of death: 15 November 1990
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Psychologist
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century psychologists 972T
    20th-century American male writers 6,911T
    American male non-fiction writers 4,581T
  • 13.

    George Herbert Mead
    American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist (1863–1931)
    George Herbert Mead
    Overview: George Herbert Mead (February 27, 1863 – April 26, 1931) was an American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several di ...
    Date of birth: 27 February 1863
    Date of death: 26 April 1931
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    Symbolic interactionism 7T
    20th-century American philosophers 713T
    People from South Hadley, Massachusetts 21T
  • 14.

    Harold Innis
    Canadian academic (1894–1952)
    Harold Innis
    Overview: Harold Adams Innis FRSC (1894 – 1952) was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory, and Canadian economic h ...
    Date of birth: 5 November 1894
    Date of death: 8 November 1952
    Age: 58 (age at death)
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Historian
    Gender: Male
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    Canadian male non-fiction writers 791T
    20th-century American economists 664T
    Historians of printing 16T
  • 15.

    Niklas Luhmann
    German sociologist (1927–1998)
    Niklas Luhmann
    Overview: Niklas Luhmann (December 8, 1927 – November 6, 1998) was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and a prominent thinker in systems theory, who is considered one of the most important social ...
    Date of birth: 8 December 1927
    Date of death: 6 November 1998
    Age: 70 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Male
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    Luftwaffenhelfer 45T
    German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United States 241T
    German male writers 4,579T
  • 16.

    Deborah Tannen
    American linguist
    Deborah Tannen
    Overview: Deborah Frances Tannen (born June 7, 1945) is an American academic and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She has been a McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton U ...
    Date of birth: 7 June 1945
    Age: 79
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
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    Harpur College alumni 25T
    Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award recipients 10T
    Women linguists 447T
  • 17.

    Wendell Johnson
    American psychologist
    Overview: Wendell Johnson (April 16, 1906 – August 29, 1965) was an American psychologist, actor and author and was a proponent of general semantics (or GS). He was born in Roxbury, Kansas and died in Iowa City ...
    Date of birth: 16 April 1906
    Date of death: 29 August 1965
    Age: 59 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Psychologist
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    20th-century psychologists 972T
    Human subject research in the United States 43T
    General semantics 19T
  • 18.

    Charles Sanders Peirce
    American thinker who founded pragmatism (1839–1914)
    Charles Sanders Peirce
    Overview: Charles Sanders Peirce ( PURSS; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". He was educated ...
    Date of birth: 10 September 1839
    Date of death: 19 April 1914
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Educator
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    Philosophical theists 22T
    Panpsychism 23T
    Mathematicians from Massachusetts 37T
  • 19.

    Maria Helena de Moura Neves
    Brazilian linguist (1931–2022)
    Overview: Maria Helena de Moura Neves (31 January 1931 – 17 December 2022) was a Brazilian linguist known for her work on language use, especially functional approaches to Portuguese grammar. She also conducted ...
    Date of birth: 31 January 1931
    Date of death: 17 December 2022
    Age: 91 (age at death)
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    Emma Briant
    British social scientist and academic
    Overview: Emma L. Briant (born 1979) is a British scholar and academic researcher on media, contemporary propaganda, surveillance and information warfare who was involved in exposing the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica ...
    Date of birth: 1979
    Age: 45
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