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Lesson Objectives (Focus Questions)

Why study communication? How long has the field existed? How the field evolved over time? How research conducted?. How to define? What process and skills? What are “two levels” of meaning? What careers?. Lesson Objectives (Focus Questions). What Mike Does in a Day….

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Lesson Objectives (Focus Questions)

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  1. Why study communication? How long has the field existed? How the field evolved over time? How research conducted? How to define? What process and skills? What are “two levels” of meaning? What careers? Lesson Objectives (Focus Questions) The Filed of Communication

  2. What Mike Does in a Day… • E-Mail vs. Communication in Person • Individual vs. Team • Creating “Climate” • Planning Interviews • Date (Relationship) • Speech to a Group The Filed of Communication

  3. Importance of Communication • We talk, listen, think, ask, answer, share ideas… So much communication in a day. • Personal Life • Building Personal Identity • Promoting Health • Personal Relationships • Marriage • Family, Parent-child, Friends,… The Filed of Communication

  4. Importance of Communication (2) • Professional Life • Critical for Career Success (Talk & Listen) • Express Ideas, Giving & Gaining Support, Gaining Cooperation • Civic Life • For the the Health of Society • Required for Democracy • Expressing Ideas, Claiming, Presenting & Listen to Argument The Filed of Communication

  5. History of the Field • Began more than 2500 yrs ago • Rhetoric and Democratic Life • Rhetoric born mid-400s B.C. on Isle of Syracuse • Ancient Philosophers-Plato, Aristotle & Isocrates: • Rhetoric as Central to Civic Life • Teaching Citizens: Analyze Listeners, Discover Ideas, Organize Messages, Develop Proof, and Deliver Speeches • Aristotle’s 3 Cornerstones of Persuasion: Ethos, Pathos, Logos (see p. 22) • Ethos: speaker’s credibility • Pathos: listener’s emotion • Logos: proofs and reasoning The Filed of Communication

  6. History of the Field (2) • Liberal Education • Public speaking taught in colleges (Europe & U.S) • Dewey: Progressive thinking and citizen participation • After WW I & II • Social Issues: Prejudice, Propaganda, Attitude & Belief Changes The Filed of Communication

  7. History of the Field (3) • Mid- 20th Century • Scientific, empirical research gaining prominence • Research & Professional Groups • 1960-70 • Civil Rights, Women’s Movement, Interpersonal Communication • Michel Foucault (French) • Ideas about “Power” The Filed of Communication

  8. Research in Communication • Quantitative Research • Descriptive Statistics, Survey, Experiment • Qualitative Research • Looking into meaning, function… • Textual Analysis, Ethnography, Historical Study • Critical Research • Identify & Challenge Communication Practices • To Advance Social Awareness The Filed of Communication

  9. Defining Communication • Communication as “a systemic process in which people interact with and through symbols to create and interpret meanings” • Features • Process: dynamic and ever-changing • Systemic: interrelated parts, context, surroundings • Symbolic: abstract, arbitrary, ambiguous representations • Meanings: created by symbols through interactions • Content level of meaning • Relationship level of meaning The Filed of Communication

  10. Models of Communication • Linear Models (p. 23) • Laswell (1948): Who Says What in What Channel to Whom with What Effect? • Shannon & Weaver (1949): “Noise” introduced • Interactive Models (p. 24) • Schramm (1955): “Feedback” added • Transactional Models (p. 25) • Wood (1997): Non-sequential, simultaneous, changing over time The Filed of Communication

  11. Breadth of the Field • Intrapersonal Communication: • self-talk, “thinking” • Interpersonal Communication: • between people • Performance Studies • performing personal, professional, social identities • Group & Team Communication: • leadership, roles, group goals, cohesion (fantasy themes) The Filed of Communication

  12. Breadth of the Field (2) • Public Communication: • speak to others, credibility, persuasion • Organizational Communication: • leadership, commitment, decision making, organizational culture • Mass Communication • media, stereotypes The Filed of Communication

  13. Breadth of the Field (3) • Technologies of Communication • human community, information & knowledge • Intercultural Communication • meanings & cultures • Ethics and Communication • relationships, rights, moral principles The Filed of Communication

  14. Unifying Themes and Processes in the Field • Unifying Themes • Symbolic activities • Meaning • Ethics • Basic Processes • Perceiving & Understanding • Creating Interaction Climates • Engaging in Verbal Communication • Engaging in Non-verbal Communication • Listening & Responding • Adapting to Contexts The Filed of Communication

  15. Careers in Communication • Research • Education • Mass Communication • Training & Consulting • Human Relations, Human Development & Management The Filed of Communication

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