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Launching Your Study of Communication Theory

Learn the basics of communication theory through an interactive slide presentation. Understand the concept of theory, explore different images of theory, and discover the definition of communication. Dive into the various divisions of communication and engage with real-life examples and student accounts of theory applications. Sharpen your focus and gain insights from conversations with communication theorists.

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Launching Your Study of Communication Theory

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  1. Launching Your Study of Communication Theory 1

  2. Slide 2 Launching Your Study of Communication Theory • What Is a Theory and What Does It Do? • What Is Communication? • An Arrangement of Ideas to Aid Comprehension • Chapter Features to Enliven Theory

  3. Slide 3 What Is a Theory? • Theory – set of systematic, informed hunches about the way things work • Set of hunches • Informed hunches • Hunches that are systematic

  4. Slide 4 What Is a Theory? • Images of theory • Theories as nets • Theories as lenses • Theories as maps

  5. Slide 5 What Is Communication? • Communication – relational process of creating and interpreting messages that elicit a response • Messages • Text – record of a message that can be analyzed by others; for example, books, films, DVDs, phonographs, or any transcript or recording

  6. Slide 6 What Is Communication? • Communication (continued) • Creation of messages • Text usually constructed, invented, planned, crafted, constituted, selected, or adopted by the communicator • Interpretation of messages • Messages do not interpret themselves

  7. Slide 7 What Is Communication? • Communication (continued) • A relational process • Takes place between two or more persons and affects the nature of the connections among those people • Messages that elicit a response • Messages have an effect upon people who receive them

  8. Slide 8 An Arrangement of Ideas to Aid Comprehension • Division I – Overview • Division II – Interpersonal Communication • Division III – Group and Public Communication • Division IV – Mass Communication • Division V – Cultural Context • Division VI – Integration

  9. Slide 9 Chapter Features to Enliven Theory • Use extended examples from life on a college campus, a well-known communication event, or the conversations of characters in movies, books, or TV shows • Student accounts of applications of theories

  10. Slide 10 Chapter Features to Enliven Theory • “Questions to Sharpen Your Focus” • “Conversations with Communication Theorists” • “A Second Look”

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