Test 1 Flashcards
(54 cards)
-Sharing, association, fellowship
Communion
-a social organization based on shared responsibility and ownership
Commune
-belonging to a group of people
Communal
-a social organization of groups
Community
What is one of the basic things to understand that communication is about?
making connections with people
What are the three basic models of communication?
- Psychological
- SocialConstructionist
- Pragmatic
- Assumes communication is a behavioral process (that comes naturally)
- Sender (or source)-> message-> reciever (and so on)
- communication is constant not just one way (like two people involved)
- a series of stimulus/ response behaviors
- What is the stimulus, what is the response?
Psychological Model
- something that interferes with the communication process
Noise
Name the three types of noise and what they are
1-Semantic Noise: language based noise (if someone speaks another language to you that you don’t know or teacher constantly cussing gets distracting
2-Environmental Noise: Something in the room that is distracting (temperature, packing up backpacks before its time to go)
3-Technological Noise: machine assisted communication (battery dead on cell or losing service.
-(aka World Building model)
-assumes that the purpose of communication is to build community/societies/ the realities in which we live.
-Heavy emphasis on shared meanings (if someone smiles you smile back b/c it shows the shared social belief of the importance of the individual)
-“the symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed.”-James Carey (different realities such as U.S., gender, racial, economic, the South)
Ask: In what way(s) does the event maintain (or challenge) a belief system?
Social Constructionism
What does symbolic mean?
- written or spoken language, image, or nonverbal behavior that represents something else (such as an abstraction-thought, idea, emotion, value, belief, process, etc.)
- “Respect” symbolizes/represents an emotion…“manufacture” represents/symbolizes a process.
How does communication produce reality?
- Symbols are used to create a new understanding of something (Create a new reality)
- Think: The first World Map (Mercator)
How does communication maintain reality?
People continued to believe the Mercator map was how the world was because that all they had to go off of until 1986
How does communication transform reality?
- When symbols are used to change reality
- Gall-Peters map came in 1986 and showed the countries “as they really are” not according to political power and changed everyone’s reality of the world
How does communication repair reality?
- By using symbols to repair the damage to a reality caused by attempts to transform it.
- People tried to say Gall-Peters map was amateur, etc to repair what was done
- This model focuses on the structure of communication; it assumes that communication is methodical and rule-based
- Communication is a series of moves, turn-taking, patterned and focuses on understanding the repeated patterns of communication
- Interdependent behaviors that become patterned over time.
- Person A & B: A greets B, B greets A, A asks question, B answers question, A leaves B, B leaves A
- Ask: What is the pattern?
Pragmatic Model
True of False: Communications/ Journalism are newer academic disciplines than the hard and social sciences?
True- early 20th centuries
this often leads to misconceptions about what we study/ who we are (and that were not Sophists)
- aka public speaking
- The point of it was to discuss ideas and search for the Truth, which may be found by the philosopher (like Plato) engaged in deep intellectual thought.
- a profound intellectual endeavor to find Truth.
Oratory
- professional teachers in ancient Greece who taught individuals (for a fee) how to be effective public speakers
- Plato opposed because he didn’t believe they were interested in searching for the Truth– just simply into making money to teach people to speak effectively.
Sophists
T or F: This field teaches people how to write and speak effectively
-False,
-we study communication, one of the most basic activities in which all human engage in all of its many forms.
As a result become effective writers and speakers
-Studied through academic disciplines that already existed (sociology, psychology, Political science, anthropology)
How studying how humans communicate with each other started:
- humans are SOCIAL beings
- communication is a primary means through which we are social
Communication from a sociological perspective:
- Human communications as stimulus/response
- Early and strong focus on interpersonal communication behaviors
- research on social psychology (how humans are affected by their social world
- Impact of media (mass communication) on audiences
Communication from a psychological perspective:
- Politics and mass communication research:
- considerable influence of World War 1 propaganda
- Impact of media (mass communication) on voter behavior
- Impact of media (mass communication) on political campaigns
Communication from a political science perspective:
