CMN 1160 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Communication Theory, Communication, Contract

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Aliaa Dakroury

Document Summary

Metts: communication is based on a process in which messages, whether intentional or unintentional, create meaning. Social organization exists as a result of the different communicative mechanisms adopted through its norms, rituals, cultural values etc. communication can also be constrained (ex. Totalitarian and dictatorship regimes) so social structures are used to determine norms. Dialectical process: tension and influence between social structures and communication. Strategic in the way messages are constructed with certain goals or motivations in mind (theory to explain why some messages are more effective than others) Consequential because they don"t always have strategic foals and can potentially carry unintended or unanticipated implications. Percetual consequences: refer to our assumptions about others and others" assumptions about us. Assumptions makes us believe that people are sending us messages through their appearances. Changes in opinion are based on the messages to which one has been exposed. Behavioural consequences: refer to chaing one"s own behaviour wthout outside influence.