CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Interaction Model, Illuminated Manuscript, Communication Source

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 110
• Professor: Gary Mc Carron

Document Summary

Conceptual foundations: what is communication? by k. miller. Communication is a process a process-oriented conceptualization of communication suggests that it is continuous and complex and cannot be arbitrarily isolated. If we accept the concept of process, we view events and relationships as dynamic, on-going, ever-changing, continuous. When we label something as a process, we also mean that it does not have a beginning, an end, a fixed sequence of events. The ingredients within a process interact; each affects all others. (david berlo, 1960) Simple interactions are influenced in complex ways by the past and will also have important implications for the future. Communication is transactional -- **we need to consider action and interaction models first. Action model also called hypodermic needle model or magic bullet model. Source presenting a message to a receiver or an audience. Suggests that communication is a simple process of injecting (needle) or shooting (bullet) our messages into receivers.