Craig argues that communication theorists are all engaging in the study of practical communication.

Intended to provide communication theorists with a valid model of small groups on which to conduct research, this perspective focuses on the principles of communication that take place within naturally formed social groups.

Kincaid is best known among communication theorists as the proponent of the convergence model of communication, a nonlinear model of communication wherein two communicators strive to reach "mutual understanding."

While communication theorists very commonly use these two approaches, theorists decentralize the place of language and machines as communicative technologies.

He received a Master's degree in communications in early childhood education from Teachers College, Columbia University, where he studied with Canadian scholar, and communication theorist, Marshall McLuhan.

In a course on New Media Studies, students are exposed to ideas and insights on media from communication theorists, programmers, educators, and technologists.

Harold Lasswell (1902-1978), a political scientist and communication theorist, was a member of the Chicago school of sociology.

One "communication theorist," for example, has arrived at the conclusion that "in any communication situation, the source and the receiver are interdependent."

Mark Orbe is a communication theorist who has extended Kramarae's work in muted group theory to African-American males and other groups made up of various cultures.

Marshall McLuhan, the noted communication theorist, famously said that any new medium contains all prior media within it.