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THE FIRST THEORIES OF COMMUNICATION
UNDER AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE
Jack Brandão
Mariana Mascarenhas
A social activity that has existed since the dawn of humanity, communication has changed with the emergence of technologies that innovated the communicational process, initiating the emergence of the first communicational theories. These presented a more limited study on this process, mainly regarding the receiver’s role in communication, which came to be considered a passive element, which reacts mechanically to what is presented to it. As new theories were being formulated, the perception of the receiver’s role changed, improving the view of how communication relations are processed. However, it was only later that communication was perceived as an interdisciplinary field, considering other areas’ contributions and how such an aspect could hinder the delimitation of its object of study as an autonomous discipline.
