Ch1: The World of Communication Copyright © 2006 Wadsworth 1 Professor: Course/Section: You may be surprised to learn that over 20% of all undergraduate

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Ch1: The World of Communication

Copyright © 2006 Wadsworth

Professor:Course/Section:

•You may be surprised to learn that over 20% of all undergraduate students don’t utilize their required course material.

•Student retention is dropping nationwide and while the higher education community has done a remarkable job of opening the doors of college to more and more students, we have not seen equal strides in the number of students who actually complete four-year degrees. (Education Trust, 2004)

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Chapter one

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Chapter One:Chapter One:The World of CommunicationThe World of Communication

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InfoTrac College Editionhttp://www.infotrac-college.com

InfoTrac College Editionhttp://www.infotrac-college.com

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Why Study Communication?Why Study Communication?

Improve Skills

Become More Effective Communicator

Help Make Sense of Our Lives

Understanding communication offers an “answer to the painful divisions between self and other, private, and public, and inner thought and outer world.”

John Peters (2000)

Understanding communication offers an “answer to the painful divisions between self and other, private, and public, and inner thought and outer world.”

John Peters (2000)

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Defining CommunicationDefining Communication

“Systemic process in which people

interact with and through symbols to

create and interpret meaning.”

“Systemic process in which people

interact with and through symbols to

create and interpret meaning.”

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Process - Ongoing and Always in Motion

Systemic - Interrelated Parts Affecting

One Another

Symbols - Abstract, Arbitrary,

Ambiguous Representations


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Levels of Meaning in Communication

Content Level

Relationship Level


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Personal Values

See Selves through

Eyes of Others

Foundations of Our

Self-Concept

Affects Our Health

Values of CommunicationValues of Communication

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Relationship Values

Key Foundation in Relationships

Very Essence of Relationships

Keep Steady Pulse of Relationship


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Professional Values

Important Where Talking and

Listening are Primary

Human Resource Professionals

Say Communication Critical


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Cultural Values

Important to Health of Society

Critical in a Democracy

Civic and Social Life Depend

on Communication Abilities


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Linear

Models of CommunicationModels of Communication

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Linear

Interactive

Feedback


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Linear

Interactive

Feedback

Transactional


Models of Communication http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~masanao/Mosaic_data/com_model.html

Models of Communication http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~masanao/Mosaic_data/com_model.html

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Intrapersonal

Self-talk

Rehearsing Ways of Acting

Prompt Self

Interpersonal

Exists on a Continuum

I-Thou

Breadth of Breadth of Communication FieldCommunication Field

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Group Communication

Social Groups

Decision Making Committees

Work Teams


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Group Communication

Social Groups

Decision Making Committees

Work Teams

Mass Communication

Traditional

New Technologies


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Public Communication

Organizational Communication

Intercultural Communication


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Symbolic Activities

Meaning

Critical Thinking

Ethics and Communication

Unifying Themes in the FieldUnifying Themes in the Field

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Research

Education

Media Production, Criticism, and Analysis

Training and Consulting

Human Relations and Management

Careers in CommunicationCareers in Communication

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Ch1: The World of Communication Copyright © 2006 Wadsworth 1 Professor: Course/Section: You may be surprised to learn that over 20% of all undergraduate