Wed. Oct 21st, 2026

Disciplines

Communications

According to Wikipedia,

Communication studies (or communication science) is an academic discipline that deals with processes of human communication and behavior, patterns of communication in interpersonal relationships, social interactions and communication in different cultures.[1]

Communications studies human connection and behavior in personal relationships, public manners, and mass media. Communications uses many ways to study some of these include interviews, text analysis, and surveys to measure how media affects society. Each helps us understand how media influences society.

Digital Humanities

According to Wikipedia,

Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities.

Digital Humanities studies how different human disciplines change including culture, history, and literature. Digital humanities also uses many ways to study some of these include Text analysis, Digital mapping, Data and information visualization, Cultural analytics, and Digital Archives.

Communications and digital humanities are similar as they both use media to see human behaviors and reactions change over a period of time.