Communication Sciences

Abstract

This essay provides one of the ways of looking at the communication area of inquiry as a science or rather sciences, and proposes an approach to identifying what unites all communication sciences together and distinguishes them from other sciences – in other words, what makes communication unique. The essay claims that communication sciences are ontologically distinguishable from other sciences because a phenomenon under the investigation of the communication is the meaning of an object or a process rather than an object or a process itself. As such, communication sciences are unique in their focus on the informational worth of objects under study – bits, while other sciences focus on the material worth of the objects – atoms.