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CHAPTER 1 RECAP
Overview of Communication
WHY COMMUNICATION?
WHY COMMUNICATION?
 Personal Life
 Relationships
 Professional Life
 Civic Life
WHAT IS COMMUNICATION?
 “…a systematic process in which people interact with and through
symbols to create and interpret meanings” (p. 10)
 “ongoing and dynamic” (process, p. 10)
 “interrelated parts” (systems, p. 11)
 Content level meaning vs. relationship level meaning
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShKbYhbcuNA
MODELS OF COMMUNICATION
Linear Model
Interactive/Interactional Model
 Introduced feedback
Transactional Model
 Considered simultaneous communication; both
communications = sender and receiver
WHY TRANSACTIONAL?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MqiHurbexE (2:01 mark)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBSYD0dQCAw
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACfkkUgWMxo (6:55 mark)
BENEFICIAL TO CAREERS
 Your career?
 Communication skills beneficial to ALL professions
 Communication majors
 Research
 Education
 Nonprofit Sector
 Mass Communication (e.g. Journalism, PR)
 Training and Consulting
 Human Relations and Management
CHAPTER 2 RECAP
Field of Communication; Research
and Study
HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION
 Role in democratic society; rhetoric
 Plato
 Aristotle
 Ethos, Logos, Pathos
 Part of liberal education
 Early focus on Public Speaking
 Field began to broaden
 Relationship between communication and power, people’s willingness to follow, injustice,
etc.
 Interpersonal Communication
 Today—several branches
AREAS OF COMMUNICATION;
 Intrapersonal
 Interpersonal
 Group and Team Communication
 Public Communication
 Organizational Communication
 Mass Communication
 Computer-Mediated Communication
 Intercultural Communication
 Others
 Journalism (Print and Broadcast)
 Health Communication
 Public Relations
 Performance Studies
 Religious Communication
 Overlapping
TYPE OF COMMUNICATION?
 Consider Overlapping Areas
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cLqT84X8nE
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPWIyY3MCWA (6:30 mark)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKeAcT8hsq8 (1:52)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtKNppXOfkE (2:45)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM0bkkdzCVA
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOJ3ioeHMD8
RESEARCHING COMMUNICATION
 Quantitative (numerical; more objective)
 E.g. descriptive stats, surveys, experiments
 Qualitative (non-numerical; more subjective)
 E.g. textual analysis, ethnography, historical, interviews/focus groups
 Critical
 Triangulation
 Data
 Researcher
 Methodological
 Rhetorical
HCA; RESEARCH AND ROLE OF
COMMUNICATION
 Interview three people
 Ask about their career (or career aspirations)
 Ask how they use communication
 If they say they don’t use communication; offer suggestions for how they
could use the skill
 Summarize what you learned from your findings
 Due Thursday