CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Nonverbal Communication, Stress Management, Interpersonal Communication
19 Apr 2013
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Online communication is limited to text and images. Communication: a process by which information is transferred between two or more agents. Nonverbal communication is something over which it is very difficult indeed, often impossible for us to exercise absolute control. Our bodies can sometimes operate like billboards advertising the emotions we are experiencing even when we try hard to remain unreadable. A poker face is a hard thing to master. Most crucially, perhaps, pfungst"s conclusions further demonstrated that a good deal of ourcommunication takes place below the threshold of everyday awareness. Early communication theorists had less interest in what was being communicated than in how the message was put together [encoded], sent. This way of thinking about communication and information is really concerned with the distinction between process and content. Monological models of communication involve a one-way movement of information from an identifiable sender to one or more receivers.
