COMM 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Profit Margin, Mass Media, System On A Chip
Document Summary
Communication is done everyday, all our lives. Takes little bits of other fields like soc, psych, ling, pol s, etc. Scholars within different fields of social sciences found that they were studying things in common formation of the new field. Communication is studied differently within different schools and their departments. People are both senders and receivers of messages in a conversation, usually at the same time (easiest to see during face-to-face communication) Examples: thumbs up, peace sign (gestures are very unique symbols), facial expressions, vocal symbols: tone, voice rhythm, etc. We hope that meaning is shared: we want to have the same understandings of symbols. Speaking the same language is a good start (but miscommunications still happen) Face to face interaction: verbal responses, nonverbal facial expressions. Mass media (entertainment): film screenings, profit margin, critics, applause, etc. Examples of channels: face-to-face, phone calls, text messaging, video chat, email, etc. Noise: anything that interferes with the transmission of messages.
