The general characteristics of the communication genre can be summarized as openness readability

Authenticity, relevance, and matter.

It utilizes the theoretical perspectives and research methods of many disciplines such as sociology, psychology, political science, journalism, anthropology, etc. to study the nature and concept of communication; the interconnection and constraints of the basic elements in the process of communication; the generation and acquisition of information, its processing and transmission, its effectiveness and feedback, and the interactions between the information and its objects; the formation of various symbol systems and their functions in communication; the functions and status of various communication media; and the relationship between the communication system and structure and various systems in various fields of society. Functions and status of communication media; the relationship between communication system, structure and various systems in various fields of society.

Communication science, also known as biography, biography, etc., is the study of various communication activities by bringing together a variety of perspectives and methodologies. Communication is the study of the laws governing the occurrence and development of all human communication behaviors and communication processes, as well as the relationship between communication and human beings and society, and it is the science of social information systems and their laws of operation. In short, communication science is the study of how human beings use symbols to communicate social information. It is characterized by intersectionality, marginality and synthesis.

The focus and foothold of communication research is: how to establish a certain relationship between people through the role of communication. Communication as an independent discipline is gradually formed since the end of the 19th century, in the 1930s and 1940s as a product of interdisciplinary research, was born in the United States. At that time, communication studies had the necessary conditions to constitute an independent discipline: self-consciousness, generality, systematicity and scientificity. In the international context, communication research is broadly divided into two schools of thought: the American-centered empirical school (traditional school) and the Western European-centered critical school.