COMM 1500 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Brainstorming, Operational Definition, Social Network

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1500
• Professor: Leland Fecher

Document Summary

Communication competence: the ability to take part in effective communication that is characterized by skills and understands that enable communicators to exchange messages successfully. Communication: the simultaneous sharing and creating of meaning through human symbolic interaction. Communications: used in general to denote the delivery systems for mediated and mass communication. Social media: highly accessible technology that facilitates communication, interaction, and connection with others. Social network: a group of individuals who are connected by friendship, family, common interest, beliefs, or knowledge. Process: a series of actions that has no beginning or end and is constantly changing. System: combination of parts interdependently acting to form a whole. Transactional: exchange of communication in which the communicators act simultaneously. Interference: anything that changes the meaning of an intended message. Feedback: response to a message that a receiver sends back to a source. Environment: the psychological and physical surroundings in which communication occurs. Context: the circumstances or situation in which communication occurs.