COMM 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Formal Language, Facetime

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1500
• Professor: Marianne Herr Glaser

Document Summary

Life is a series of connections that we take for granted. Communication competence: the ability to take part in effective communication that"s characterized by skills and understandings that enable messages successfully. Communication: the simultaneous sharing and creating of meaning through human symbolic interaction. Communication is critical to making connections in all relationships. Western europe in the middle ages religious leaders developed written/spoken language. In the western world, public speaking, storytelling, and debating was used to change public opinion and persuade others to take political action. African, eastern, and middle eastern cultures also emphasize effective communication. Communications: the delivery systems for meditated and mass communication; ways of disseminating information. Communication involves a range of behaviors and occurs in a variety of situations. Human symbolic interactions: using a symbol system to share thoughts, feelings, beliefs, attitudes, customs, and ideas. Why we should study communication: our technological society. Social media: highly accessible technologies that facilitate communication, interaction, and connection.