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Page 1: What is Communication?. Accurate transfer of information from sender to receiver Sender and receiver can be people, animals, or machines. Two way street

What is Communication?

Page 2: What is Communication?. Accurate transfer of information from sender to receiver Sender and receiver can be people, animals, or machines. Two way street

What is Communication?

• Accurate transfer of information from sender to receiver

• Sender and receiver can be people, animals, or machines.

• Two way street - To have good communication, we must be sure what we are saying is clearly understood

Page 3: What is Communication?. Accurate transfer of information from sender to receiver Sender and receiver can be people, animals, or machines. Two way street

Person – Person Communication

• Most communication occurs among people.

• Interpersonal communication often uses speech.

• This is called verbal communication.

Page 4: What is Communication?. Accurate transfer of information from sender to receiver Sender and receiver can be people, animals, or machines. Two way street

Person – Person Communication

• Is often enhanced by technological means.

• Speech is amplified by public address systems.

• Film and Videotape record gestures that can be seen at a later time and place.

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Mass Communication

• Communication can reach mass amounts of people using technology.

• Mass communication systems include radio, television, books, magazines and newspapers.

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Purpose of Communication

• Communication systems are designed with five different goals in mind. – Inform– Persuade– Entertain– Educate– Control

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Inform

• To inform people we might use mass media like newspapers, radio or television.

• Other examples are announcements about concerts, school or community events, sales, births, deaths or marriages.

Page 8: What is Communication?. Accurate transfer of information from sender to receiver Sender and receiver can be people, animals, or machines. Two way street

Persuasion

• Person to person communication is often used to persuade.

• Salespeople try to get customers to buy products

• Lawyers persuade judges and juries

• Advertisements use persuasion to sell products

Page 9: What is Communication?. Accurate transfer of information from sender to receiver Sender and receiver can be people, animals, or machines. Two way street

Entertainment

• Entertainment is based on communication.

• Movies, books, cd’s, plays, dances, concerts and cartoons are all forms of communication used to entertain.

Page 10: What is Communication?. Accurate transfer of information from sender to receiver Sender and receiver can be people, animals, or machines. Two way street

Education

• We use communication to educate people.

• Teachers communicate verbally with students,

• Newspapers provide education through articles

• Television documentaries educate viewers on many topics.

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Control

• Communication can be used as a method of control.

• This can be seen in machine to machine communication.

• Thermostats communicate with furnaces to control temperature.

• Timers communicate with washing machines to control the washing cycle.

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Communication Systems

• We are surrounded by many communication systems.

• Range from small calculators to a world wide telephone system

• All function to achieve a desired result – To communicate a message

• What Communication Systems do you use?

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ASSIGNMENT TIME

• Now that you have learned some basics of communication technology, your instructor will give you an outline for a project that will help us investigate different forms of communication