Category
page 1Communication theorists
Jürgen Habermas
German sociologist and philosopher (1929–2026)

Stanisław Lem
Polish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist, studied medical doctor (1921–2006)

Marshall McLuhan
Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar (1911–1980)

Lev Vygotsky
Soviet psychologist (1896-1934)

Hans-Georg Gadamer
German philosopher (1900–2002)
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)

Roman Jakobson
Russian linguist (1896–1982)
bell hooks
American author and activist (1952–2021)

Erving Goffman
Canadian-American sociologist (1922–1982)
John Searle
American philosopher (1932–2025)
Manuel Castells
Spanish sociologist

Niklas Luhmann
German sociologist, administration expert, and social systems theorist (1927-1998)

Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)

Paul Grice
British philosopher

Harold Lasswell
American political scientist (1902-1978)
Paul Watzlawick
Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher (1921-2007)

Karl Bühler
German psychologist (1879–1963)
Karl-Otto Apel
German philosopher (1922–2017)

Vilém Flusser
Czech philosopher and photographer
Harold Innis
Canadian professor of political economy (1894–1952)
Warren Weaver
American mathematician (1894–1978)
George Gerbner
American writer, freelancer and sociologist (1919–2005)
Terry Winograd
American professor
Molefi Kete Asante
African-American historian and philosopher; theorist of Afrocentricity
Everett Rogers
American academic
Noël Carroll
American philosopher
Patrick Suppes
philosopher from United States of America
Fernando Flores
Chilean politician
Wilbur Schramm
American writer, journalist, scholar (1907–1987)
Denis McQuail
British communication theorist, academic and writer (1935-2017)
Osmo Antero Wiio
Finnish communications professor, journalist and Member of Parliament (1928-2013)
Herbert Schiller
American media critic (1919–2000)
Ralf van Bühren
German art historian and Church historian

Robert T. Craig
American professor of communication
Joan Chittister
Roman Catholic nun, activist, writer and academic

Friedemann Schulz von Thun
German psychologist
Donald deAvila Jackson
American psychiatrist
Karl Küpfmüller
German communication theorist (1897–1977)

Colin Cherry
British scientist (1914-1979)
Tamer Başar
Turkish electrical engineer (born 1946)

Mark Johnson
American philosopher, born 1949
James W. Carey
American sociologist (1934-2006)
Ithiel de Sola Pool
American
Harald Wohlrapp
philosopher

David Berlo
American communications theorist
Klaus Krippendorff
German cyberneticist