Features of the Academic and Pedagogical Communication in Virtual Environment

Abstract

There is an unbreakable bond between communication and knowledge. The philosophical realm that dwells on the nature of knowledge, known as epistemology, is mostly concerned with the discussion of how we acquire knowledge. Our main task in this article is to survey the contribution of different scientists, schools, research teams, scientific journals, and e-resources in establishing the fields of the academic and pedagogical communication. Our second task is to contrast the features of the two fields in terms of channels, practices, and genres. By academic communication, we define a term that encompasses the discourses conducted between the scientific community members and the lecturer-students interactions, where by pedagogical communication in this article we will refer to the educational interactions between the teachers and students at schools. We are going to delve into exploring the features of academic and pedagogical communication in traditional oral and written academic communication, as well as in virtual environment.