COMM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Interpersonal Communication, Mass Communication, Small Talk

• School: WPUNJ, WPU
• Department: COMM - Communication
• Course: COMM 110
• Professor: Lynne Orr

Document Summary

Communication is a collaborative process of using messages to create and participate in social reality. Interpersonal communication: communication with or between persons; occurs between people who approach one another as individuals in a relationship whether it is personal/intimate relationship. Most interpersonal communication scholars focus on our closest relationships, such as those between friends, family, and romantic partners. Small group communication: communication among the members of a small group of people working together to achieve a common goal or purpose. Communication with others is dependent on individual perceptions, and those perceptions developed with the communication that happens within the individuals. Mass communication: messages transmitted by electronic & print media to large audiences that are distant and undifferentiated. Public communication: refers to situations in which a person delivers a message to an audience. It promotes health: less heart disease: people can have fewer mental health problems, better physical and mental well-being. Communication is the heart of the relationship: communication.