CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stress Management, Linear Model, Communication Studies

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

Document Summary

Central concerns in our lives are connected to the ubiquitous concept of communication: open communication as key to good relationship. Internet and www as part of global communication revolution: communication industry as instiller of negative values in kids, effective communication with employees and customers as key to being productive organization. Defining communication: there is no single correct definition, definitions should be evaluated in terms of their utility instead of their correctness, definitions are abundant and changed substantially over time, over 126 definitions proposed in literature (dance and. Larson, 1976: definitions are diverse, abstract, specific, situation and context specific, narrow specification, points of discussion widely accepted as appropriate, points of convergence definitions of communication (truisms) Communication is a process: characteristics: continuous, complex, unfolds over time, complexity: even simple interactions are influenced in complex ways by the past and will influence the future, linear model of communication, communication moves from source to receiver.