Welcome to Communication Concepts.

This book offers a repository of ideas and a set of thinking tools for approaching and understanding communication from diverse scholarly, professional, and cultural perspectives.

You may be reading this book as a member of the learning community of ACX701 Communication Concepts, a Master of Communication unit taken by students at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. If you are, welcome – you are joining a learning community full of people like yourself who are interested in the many fantastic, intricate, powerful ways in which communication shapes our world.

But what makes this book so exciting is that it extends the Communication Concepts learning community. It is itself an act of communication that speaks about and to communicators everywhere.

I hope you enjoy it.