COM 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stress Management, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

• School: Pace University
• Department: Communications
• Course: COM 111
• Professor: Klein

Document Summary

Breaking down human communication: disasters of public communication. Bp oil spill- tony hayworth makes his pr speech about himself instead of the crisis that was unfolding. Communication is delicate- our words affect everyone and everything: human communication- the process of creating meaning through symbolic interaction. Communication is an every changing process through which the social fabric of relationships. groups, organizations, societies and world order and disorder is created and maintained. Use communication to control the environment we are in. Communication is symbolic: there are countless forms of communication, all of which are based on symbolic expressions. Images and creative content: all carry meanings and representations that we interpret, both consciously and subconsciously. Monday, september 19, 2016: for the symbols to work they require a shared code. Sender codes and receiver decodes the messages. A channel of communication can be social media, television, newspapers.