Week 1 Communication

Question 1

What is communication?

Answer 1

• Unites and divides
• Always has a history

Question 2

Oxford Definition of Communication

Answer 2

1) Imparting, conveying, or exchange of ideas, knowledge, or information
2) the means or action of communicating
3) that which is communicated

Question 3

Related words to communication

Answer 3

• Community
• Commune
• Communion
• Communitas
• “Commmon Sense”

Question 4

Community

Answer 4

Group of people organized into political, social, or cultural unity

Question 5

Commune

Answer 5

A territorial settlement of like-minded people

Question 6

Communion

Answer 6

A Christian ritual in which believers are inducted into belonging

Question 7

“Common Sense”

Answer 7

“Ordinary understanding without which one is considered foolish or insane”

Question 8

Communitas

Answer 8

Intense feelings of social togetherness or belonging

Question 9

Williams: Communication

What are key points?

Answer 9

• Communication is action
• Communication refers to means of communication
• 20th century: communications as media

Question 10

Raymond Williams: What does media mean?

Answer 10

• Intervening or intermediate agency or substance
• Technical differentiation between print, sound, and vision
• A vehicle/ medium for something else

Question 11

Raymond Williams: What does mediation mean?

Answer 11

• Political: intermediary action designed to bring bout reconciliation or agreement (conciliation)
• Dualist: activity that describes relationship between something real and something fake (ideology or rationalization)
• Formalist: direct and necessary activity between different kinds of activity and consciousness (form)

Question 12

One-direction communication

Answer 12

To communicate means to tranmit

Question 13

Mutual communication

Answer 13

To communicate means to share

Question 14

Communication is also defined as the friction between what 2 things?

Answer 14

Manipulation and participation

Question 15

Definition of Transmission model:

Central idea of communication is transmission of signals or messages over distance for the purpose of_____

Answer 15

Control

Question 16

Communication as “ritual” (J. Carey)

Answer 16

• Ritual view of communication is directed towards the maintenance of society in time
• Communication is a symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed

Question 17

Three I’s

Answer 17

• Interaction
• Institutions
• Interpretation

Question 18

Interpretation

Answer 18

Communication, culture, and representation

Question 19

Institutions

Answer 19

Communications, institutions, and power

Question 20

Interaction

Answer 20

Communication, the person, and everyday life

Question 21

Why communication studies?

Answer 21

• Communication is a process that involves people
• People make communication and vice versa
  -Interdisciplinary practice

Question 22

Whose quote about the self was used?

Answer 22

G.H. Mead

Question 23

The Self

Answer 23

• Arises in process of social experience and activity
• Individual posses self in relation to selves of others of their social group
• Structure of self reveals general behavior pattern

Question 24

Bottom line: Communication is that which connects _______ with others through patterned ways of _____, thus creating and sustaining institutions and practices of community

Answer 24

The self; interaction

Question 25

Double Consciousness

Answer 25

Sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others

Question 26

Positionality is defined as the reality that our various social and cultural identities and economic position shape what 3 things?

Answer 26

consciousness, commitments, and actions