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The editorial structure of the International encyclopedia of communication offers one view on the present state of communication as an academic field. The 29 editorial areas range in scope from micro‐analysis of individual behavior (e.g., → Information Processing) to macro‐analysis of communication institutions on societal and international scales (e.g., → International Communication). Editorial areas also range across modes of inquiry, including those of quantitative social science (e.g., → Media Effects), interpretive social science (e.g., → Language and Social Interaction), critical and cultural studies (e.g., → Feminist and Gender Studies), humanities (e.g., → Rhetorical Studies), applied professions (e.g., → Journalism), and such varied other interdisciplines as → media history, → media economics, and communication and media law and policy.