COM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Communication Theory, Stress Management, Relativism

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Communication
• Course: COM 100
• Professor: Clark

Document Summary

Communication is a transactional process in which people generate meaning through the exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages in specific contexts influenced be individual and societal forces and embedded in cultures. Field of experience education, personal relationships, family relationships, individual experiences/history. Power, gender, political factors, historical factors, and economic factors. Learned patterns of perceptions, values, and behaviors. The synergetic model is a transactional model that depicts communication as occurring when two or more people create meaning as they respond to each other and their environment. In addition, it is based on a belief in the important roles of individual and societal forces, contexts, and culture in the communication process. Communication ethics- the standards of right and wrong that one implies to messages sent and received. Truthfulness is at the core of communication ethics. Also at the core of communication ethics is what information should be withheld or disclosed. We need to access the benefit or harm associated with certain messages.