COMM1040 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Webcam, Self Esteem (Song), Extraversion And Introversion

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The process through which people use messages to generate meanings within and across contexts, cultures, channels, and media. Process: everything you say and do affects what is said and done in the present and future. Message: the package of information that is transported during communication. Interaction: the result when people exchange a series of messages. Contexts: situations, communication occurs in a seemingly endless varieties of situations. Channels: the sensory dimension along which communicators transmit information. Webcams, cell phones, texting, e-mail, letters, face-to-face interaction. Consider components of models, including feedback and fields of experience. A dynamic form of communication between two or more people, where the messages influence thoughts, emotions, behaviors, relationships. Dynamic: constantly changing, no one interaction is the same, changes based on context (ie: communication with parents high school v college) The meaning of what your saying, conveyed verbally through words. Relationship information: the how you say it, and nonverbal, shifts and changes.