Intro To Communications

Intro To Communications

1. Key Ideas

   • Defining and Understanding Communications: The ongoing symbolic process by which humans create, maintain, repair and transform reality through social interaction
   • Communication Proccess: Sending, Recieving, Messages, Noise, Context and Feedback
   • Models of Communications: Linear, Interactive, Transactional

2. Terms/Vocabulary

   • Sender: The individual or group who is initiating the the message.
   • Receiver: The Interpreter. The individual or group to whom the message is sent
   • Message: The particular content that is being sent and received.
   • Channel: The means by which the message is sent.
   • Noise: Anything that can get in the way of message transmission.
   • Context: The physical, social, political, historical structures in which communication occurs.
   • Feedback: This is the response by the receiver.

3. Examples

   • Models of Communication
     • Transactional: allows us to see that communication is simultaneous, dynamic and complex. Context is deeper. Accounting for both the sender’s and receiver’s fields of experience.
     • Interactive: Takes the Linear Model and adds the elements of context and feedback. This model sees communication as two-way and includes context. (ex. when you send a text and your friend receives it.
     • Linear: A sender encodes a message via a channel and the message is decoded by the receiver.  It is straight-line communication found typically in social media and mass communication. Television, Radio, Newspapers, etc.