COMM 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Feminist Theory, Literary Theory

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1
• Professor: french

Document Summary

First impression (initial hey: probably didn"t hear), meaning of the message will change as it goes through process (keep repeating hey, ignores you) Essential for individuals, relationships, groups, organizations, and societies. Message: symbol or collection of symbols that has meaning of utility. Message reception: process of interpretation, how we attend to, attach significance to and use messages. A way of relating to the environment and other people. Human communication is the process through which individuals in relationships, groups, organizations, and societies (respond to and create messages) and create and use information to relate to the environment and one another (textbook, pg. Communication not just information transmission but doing social actions. Are definitions objective or neutral? not objective, decision is made dependently. Depends on the author, for whom the definition is for, and the goal (what are you trying to accomplish with the definition, to define a field, to label) language of definitions.