COMM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Logical Consequence, Human Communication, Social Science

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM 101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Communication- the study of messages. (department of communication) theoretical communication. Communications- the practice of using messages ( cox communications- company that provides cable service and internet. Broadcast company that engage with putting message out there) applied communication. Cognitive/ cognition- knowledge, process of think/ thoughts. Cognitive response- a thought someone has in response to some stimulus. Affect- social scientist use to refer to emotion, mood, or feeling to some outside force. Social- interaction, people sharing information,social media, the people part, regular citizens having a facebook account. Context- specific situation or current situations, surrounding events or elements, time, customs that can affect the meaning of messages. Often when you change context, you change the meaning. Quantitative- route word is quantity, number, amount. Anything can be translated or represented by numbers. You can translate anything into a numerical quantity. Implication- a logical relationship between two propositions in which if the first thing is true, the second thing is also true.