COMM 1010 Midterm: Midterm Review

• School: Fordham University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMM 1010
• Professor: Karasick

Document Summary

Organizational: understanding about identity & codes of thought & action shared by members of an organization. Intercultural: communication between people of different cultures, including distinct cultures within a single country. Purpose: inform, join, unite, common, information, always changing. Dyssemia: questioning meaning/cannot control how meaning is received. its social task themes. Fantasy themes: chains of ideas that spin out in a group & capture: frame how group members think about what they are doing , ex: political parties constructed into warring opponents how they define success. *communication: a systematic process in which individuals interact with and through symbols to create and interpret meaning. Systematic: involves a group of interrelated parts and affect one another. things. Symbols: abstract, arbitrary, and ambiguous representations of other. Meaning: we create it by working with symbols; the heart of communications: is contextual: meanings are in people, not words. Intensional orientation: based on internal factors; our own definitions etc. related to words we speak, hear & read.