COMM 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Irreversible Process, Eye Contact
Intro to Comm:
- Course Objectives:
- Learn about important comm processes in various contexts (what goes on in
comm in various courses)
- Study how humans actually communicate w/ each other
- Not “how to” but “what matters”
- According to social science research
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Communication is:
- People (sources/receivers)
- Exchanging meaningful symbols
- Can’t exchange meaning w/o messages
- We hope that meaning is shared
- With feedback (when you send messages you also get messages telling you how it’s
going)
- Through various channels (verbally, social media, texting, radio or tv, books or novels)
- Can be disrupted by “noise” (lose signal, typos, buffering)
- In various contexts (cultural context, relational context, situational things,
boss/employee)
- (interpersonal dyads, groups, media, etc.)
Communication is also…
- A systematic, cognitive process (systematic = not just random, doesn’t occur without
norms)
- Encoding and decoding of the messages being transmitted
- That has transactional qualities
- Exchange, interdependence (rely on each other), irreversibility (always moving
forward, can’t rewind)
(See models in RC Ch. 1)
...and note:
There is NO “s” in “communication”!
A “communications” specialist = more infrastructure side (phone lines, band width, etc.)
A specialist in “communication” = how ppl send messages and how productivity works or
how media might influence attitudes and behavior
Communication Contexts
Major areas of study in the comm field
- Researchers focus on different aspects of communication
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Document Summary
Learn about important comm processes in various contexts (what goes on in comm in various courses) Study how humans actually communicate w/ each other. With feedback (when you send messages you also get messages telling you how it"s going) Through various channels (verbally, social media, texting, radio or tv, books or novels) Can be disrupted by noise (lose signal, typos, buffering) In various contexts (cultural context, relational context, situational things, boss/employee) (interpersonal dyads, groups, media, etc. ) A systematic, cognitive process (systematic = not just random, doesn"t occur without norms) Encoding and decoding of the messages being transmitted. Exchange, interdependence (rely on each other), irreversibility (always moving forward, can"t rewind) (see models in rc ch. A communications specialist = more infrastructure side (phone lines, band width, etc. ) A specialist in communication = how ppl send messages and how productivity works or how media might influence attitudes and behavior. Major areas of study in the comm field.
