Communication is the exchange of information between two or more parties. It is effective when the message is understood and stimulates thought or action. There are various forms of communication including interpersonal communication between two people, small group communication, public communication, and mass communication from one source to many receivers. Communication occurs across different contexts such as physical, cultural, social, and temporal environments and can involve verbal, oral, written, or nonverbal exchange through different channels and media.
Communication is the exchange of information between two or more parties. It is effective when the message is understood and stimulates thought or action. There are various forms of communication including interpersonal communication between two people, small group communication, public communication, and mass communication from one source to many receivers. Communication occurs across different contexts such as physical, cultural, social, and temporal environments and can involve verbal, oral, written, or nonverbal exchange through different channels and media.
Communication is the exchange of information between two or more parties. It is effective when the message is understood and stimulates thought or action. There are various forms of communication including interpersonal communication between two people, small group communication, public communication, and mass communication from one source to many receivers. Communication occurs across different contexts such as physical, cultural, social, and temporal environments and can involve verbal, oral, written, or nonverbal exchange through different channels and media.
Communication is the exchange of information between two or more parties. It is effective when the message is understood and stimulates thought or action. There are various forms of communication including interpersonal communication between two people, small group communication, public communication, and mass communication from one source to many receivers. Communication occurs across different contexts such as physical, cultural, social, and temporal environments and can involve verbal, oral, written, or nonverbal exchange through different channels and media.
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Communication - process of exchanging Forms of Comm.
information, ideas, thoughts, feelings and
Intrapersonal Comm - yourself- emotions through speech, signals, writings, and when you talk with, learn about, and behavior. judge yourself Communication is effective only when the Interpersonal Comm - occurs when you message is understood and when it interact with a person with stimulates action or encourages the receiver to whom you have some kind of think in new ways. relationship; Small-group comm - occurs when you Characteristics of Comm. interact with a person with Two or more persons whom you have some kind of Exchange of ideas relationship. Mutual understanding Public Comm - communication Direct and indirect communication between a speaker and an audience. Continuous process Computer mediated comm - includes all Use of words as well as symbols forms of communication between people with the use of computer or Skills of Human Comm. smartphones or internet. Self- presentation skills - enable you to Mass Comm - refers to communication present yourself as confident, from one source to likable, approachable, and credible many receivers who may be scattered person. throughout the world. Relationship skills - help you build Comm Context friendships, enter into love relationships, work with colleagues, and Physical - tangible or concrete interact environment. with family members. Cultural - lifestyles, beliefs, Interviewing skills - enable you to values, behavior, and communication of interact to gain information, to a group. successfully present yourself to get Socio-psychological - has to do the job with the status relationships among Group interaction and leadership - helps speakers, you participate effectively in the formality of the situation, or the relationship and task groups- norms of a group or organization. informative, problem- Temporal - message’s position solving, and brain-storming groups, at within a sequence of events home or at Types of Comm work- as a member and as a leader. Presentation or Public speaking - Verbal - the form of communication in enables you to manage your fear and which message is transmitted verbally. make it Oral - Spoken words are used. work for you, rather than against you. It includes face-to-face conversations, speech, telephonic conversation, video, radio, television, voice-over The Organizational – hierarchy and power Internet. In oral communication, Public/Rhetorical - Communication communication influence by pitch, apprehension; delivery effectiveness; volume, speed and clarity of speaking. speech and text criticism; ethical Written - written signs or symbols are speechmaking; popular culture analysis used to communicate. Mass/Media - Use of media; Non-verbal - sending or receiving affiliation and television programming; of wordless messages like gestures, television and values; media and need body language, posture facial fulfillment; effects of social networking expression. sites Cultural - Culture and rule-setting; Principles of comm culture and anxiety; hegemony; Communication is purposeful ethnocentrism Communication involves choices Communication apprehension- a generalized Communication is Ambiguous fear or anxiety regarding communicating in Communication involves content and front of others. relationship dimensions Communication has a power dimension Mass media-channels or delivery modes for Communication is punctuated mass messages. Communication inevitable, irreversible, and unrepeatable Mass Communication- communication to a 7 contexts in comm field: large audience via various channels (e.g., radio, Contexts - environments in which Internet, television, etc.) communication takes place New media- computer-related technology Situational contexts - environments that are limited by such factors as the number of Culture- a community of meanings with, among people present, the feedback, the space other things, a shared body of knowledge. between communicators, among others.
7 Contexts: Cultural communication- communication
between and among individuals whose cultural Intrapersonal - Impression formation backgrounds vary. and decision making; symbols and meaning; observations and attributions; Co-cultures- groups of individuals who are part ego involvement and persuasion of the same larger culture, but who can be Interpersonal - Relationship classified around various identities maintenance strategies; relational intimacy; relationship control; interpersonal attraction Small group - Gender and group leadership; group vulnerability; groups and stories; group decision making; task difficulty