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Ch1: The World of Communication
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•You may be surprised to learn that over 20% of all undergraduate students don’t
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•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
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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)
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Defining Communication
“Systemic process in which people
interact with and through symbols to
create and interpret meaning.”
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Defining Communication
 Process - Ongoing and Always in Motion
 Systemic - Interrelated Parts Affecting
One Another
 Symbols - Abstract, Arbitrary,
Ambiguous Representations
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Defining Communication
 Levels of Meaning in Communication
 Content Level
 Relationship Level
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Values of Communication
 Personal Values
 See Selves through
Eyes of Others
 Foundations of Our
Self-Concept
 Affects Our Health
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Values of Communication
 Relationship Values
 Key Foundation in Relationships
 Very Essence of Relationships
 Keep Steady Pulse of Relationship
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Values of Communication
 Professional Values
 Important Where Talking and
 Human Resource Professionals
Say Communication Critical
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Listening are Primary
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Values of Communication
 Cultural Values
 Important to Health of Society
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 Critical in a Democracy
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 Civic and Social Life Depend
on Communication Abilities
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Models of Communication
 Linear
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Models of Communication
 Linear
 Interactive
 Feedback
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Models of Communication
 Linear
 Interactive
 Feedback
 Transactional
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Models of Communication
http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~masanao/Mosaic_data/com_model.html
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Breadth of
Communication Field
 Intrapersonal
 Self-talk
 Rehearsing Ways of Acting
 Prompt Self
 Interpersonal
 Exists on a Continuum
 I-Thou
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Breadth of
Communication Field
 Group Communication
 Social Groups
 Decision Making Committees
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 Work Teams
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Breadth of
Communication Field
 Group Communication
 Social Groups
 Decision Making Committees
 Work Teams
 Mass Communication
 New Technologies
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 Traditional
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Breadth of
Communication Field
 Public Communication
 Organizational Communication
 Intercultural Communication
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Unifying Themes in the Field
 Symbolic Activities
 Meaning
 Ethics and Communication
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 Critical Thinking
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Careers in Communication
 Research
 Education
 Media Production, Criticism, and Analysis
 Training and Consulting
 Human Relations and Management
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