Interpersonal Communication

Interpersonal Communication

1. Interpersonal Communication: Two-way interactions between people who are apart of a close and irreplaceable relationship in which they treat each other as unique individuals.

   • Cyber Relationship: An affiliation between people who know each other only in the virtual world.
     • My best friends who are from Australia, I met through Tumblr, so I've only known them in the virutal world.

2. Why People Use Communication Technology

   • Mediated channels enable communication that would not happen otherwise.
     • Mediated communication can feel nonthreatnening.
     • Online communication can be validating.
     • Electronic communication often has a pause button.

3. Phubbing: a mixture of the words phone and snubbing, used to describe episodes in which people pay more attention to their devices than they do to the people around them.

4. Social Exchange Theory: The idea that we seek out people who can give us rewards that are greater than or equal to the costs we encounter in dealing with them.

   • First impressions can mislead, our priorities change, perfection can be a turn off, it's not all about communication, but it's a lot about communication,

5. Friendships, family relationships, romantic partners,.

   • Developmental Models: (of relational maintenance) Theoretical frameworks based on the idea that communication patterns are different in various stages of interpersonal relationships.
     • Initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, bonding, differentiating, circumstancing, stagnating, avoiding, terminating.

6. Content Message: A message that communicates information about the subject being discussed.

   • Relational Message: A message that expresses the social relationship between two or more individuals.
     • Affinity: The degree to which people like or appreciate one another. As with all relational messages, affinity is usually expressed nonverbally.
       • Respect: the degree to which we hold others in esteem.
         • Immediacy: the degree of interest and attraction we feel toward and communicate to others. As with all relational messages, immedicay is usually expressed nonverbally.
       • Dialectical Model: The perspective that people in virtually all interpersonal relationships must deal with equally important, simultaneous, and opposing forces such as connection and autonomy, predictability, and novelty, and openness versus privacy.

7. Metacommunication: Messages (usually relational) that refer to other messages; communication about communication.

   • Self-Disclosure: The process of deliberately revealing information about oneself that is significant and that would not normally be known by others
   • Social Penetration Model: a theory that describes how intimacy can be achieved via the breadth and depth of self disclosure.
     • Breadth (of self-disclosure): The range of topics about which an individual discloses.
       • Depth (of self-disclosure): The level of personal information a person reveals on a particular topic
       • Johari Window: A model that describes the relationship between self disclosure and self awareness.