04:189:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stopwatch, Circular Reasoning, Liberal Arts Education

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Communication and Informatio
• Course: 04:189:101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

1 30 14: roadmap, 1. review. Comm process can occur (& be studied at) a number of different levels : not just study of talking messages. Native vs. scholarly theories: rigorously/systematically tested. Stopwatch example: comm is a stopwatch want to know about gears making stopwatch work. 2 volunteers at a party they were coming: 2. Info passed from one place to another: procedures by which one mind affects another, transmission of info, ideas, emotions and skills via symbols, transmission of message from source to receiver w/conscious intent to affect latter"s behavior. Fundamental characteristics of comm: comm is a process (number of interrelated steps, essential for individs, relationships, groups, organizations, societies. Involves creating & responding to messages: message symbol or collection of symbols that has meaning or utility, message reception process of interpretation. A way of relating to environment and other people: coordinate actions with others. Book definition of comm: pg 17 human comm one another .