COMM 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mobile Phone Signal, Irreversible Process, Communication Studies
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Came from social sciences; those who studied speech. Exchanging meaningful symbols facial expressions, body language, gestures, words (anything that is used to get a thought from point a to point b) can"t exchange meaning w/o messages: we hope that meaning is shared. Can"t do it if you can"t communicate it to the other person (i. e. dropped call) People can misunderstand it and be offended. With feedback some type of response through various channels (texting, face to face) can be disrupted by noise . Anything that interferes with the message getting there. Psychological noise (mood, emotion) in various context (interpersonal dyads - two people, groups, media, etc. ) Communication has no s a communiations specialists: verizon, fcc (regulate tv stations, radios) A specialist in communication - studies human interaction and the encoding & decoding of things. Researchers focus on different aspects of communication.
