CMN 279 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Information Overload, Jargon
5 Jul 2016
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It enhances speed and volume of transmitted messages (62b daily emails) Communication is the transmission of information and meaning from one individual or group to another. Meaning only happens when the receiver decodes the message (step 5). You are the meaning of everything you read, see, hear, taste, touch, or experience. Step 1: sender has an idea or information to share. Step 2: sender encodes idea in a form that will carry it to the receiver. Step 6: receiver sends feedback (feedback is encoded, transmitted & decoded back to sender) Semantic interference or bypassing (asap, help, short, soon) Mixed messages and channel barriers (conflicting signals, wrong channel selection) Environmental interference (differing frames of reference age, culture, demographics) Culture the shared system of values, beliefs, attitudes, norms, and practices: because people from different cultures encode and decode messages differently, there is always the potential for misunderstanding across cultural boundaries. Change the context = change the meaning: meaning is context/culture.
