C1-COMMUNICATION_1

C1-COMMUNICATION_1

1. DEFINITION

   • The process using message to generate the meaning
     • Process (activity, cycle, exchange of behavior)
     • Message (v/nv, feeling, thought, idea)
     • Meaning (understand the message)

2. WHY

   • Improve yourself (self confident, self esteem).
   • Improve others see you (trust, respect).
   • Learn human relationship (community, family).
   • Teach important life skills (decision making, problem solving, and critical thinking).
   • Succeed professionally (doctor, lawyer).
   • Freedom speech (voice out opinion freely).
   • Navigate diverse world

3. ELEMENT/COMPONENT

   • People a) source (initiate the message). b) Receiver (target of message).
   • Message (verbal/ nonverbal – thought, idea, feeling).
   • Feedback (receiver’s response whether in v/nv to source’s message)
   • Channel (medium that message moves from source to receiver). Eg: sound waves, air waves, cable
   • Code (systematic arrangement of symbols).
   • Encoding (translating the idea) and decoding (assign the meaning).
   • Noise (any interference that might reduce the message clarity). Eg: bunyi aircond

4. PRINCIPLE

   • YOU
   • OTHERS
   • Content (behavior that is expected) and relational dimension (how it should be interpreted).
   • Quantity does not increase quality
   • Complicated (can be explain –related with component).
   • Inevitable (cannot be avoided).
   • . Irreversible (cannot be reversed). We cannot go back in time and erase our message to others. Eg: hurt someone feelings
   • Unrepeatable (cannot be repeated) We cannot recreate the same situation, same settings and same ambience. Eg: wedding anniversary

5. CONTEXT

   • Intrapersonal (within the self).
   • Interpersonal (between at least 2 or more).
     • dyadic (2 person only).
     • small group (3 to 10 people).
   • Public (1 source and a number of receivers).
   • Mass (1 source and number of unseen receivers).
   • CMC - computed mediated communication (using communication network).

6. TERM

   • Communication competence – The ability to effectively exchange meaning through a common system of symbols, signs, or behaviors.
   • Ethics – a set of moral principles or values.