Interpersonal Communication vs. Intrapersonal Communication

Interpersonal communication is the communication between two people who have a relationship together. A study shows that a couple who communicate more are more likely to last longer than a couple who does not.

Intrapersonal communication is the communication has with them self, through self-talking or thinking to them self. People use this everyday, a lot of people plan their day in their head before they begin it.


This information came from the textbook:
Wood, Julia T., ed. Communication Mosaics: An Introduction to the Field of Communication, 5Th ed. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008.

Mass Communication

Mass Communication is a major source for people to receive information and entertainment. Mass Communication can be used by television, radio, Internet, and print sources (books, magazines and newspapers). These sources can present humans the views of other people, events and cultural life. We can use mass communication to present our own views to the world also, (like blogging).

There are four major advancements in mass communication:
1.) Tribal Epoch, talking, started since the beginning of time, communicate mainly face to face.
2.) Literate Epoch, alphabet, started around 2000 BC, communication does not have to be face to face.
3.) Print Epoch, books, started around 1450 AD, communicate to hundreds at once.
4.) Electronic Epoch, telegraph, started around 1850 AD, communicate to someone specific miles away.

This information came from the textbook:
Wood, Julia T., ed. Communication Mosaics: An Introduction to the Field of Communication, 5th ed. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008.

Link for 2 Communication Models

For more information on the transmission model and the transactional model and other models visit this website:

http://www.shkaminski.com/Classes/Handouts/Communication%20Models.htm

Although adapted and updated, much of the information in this lecture is derived from C. David Mortensen, Communication: The Study of Human Communication (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1972), Chapter 2, “Communication Models.”

2 Communication Models

The Transmission Model

This model was created by Claude Shannon. He was able to predict the decay of a message over a long distance by working out a mathematical formula. Warren Weaver saw that Shannon's model had broader implications. This model is very easy to understand. It puts the communication process in a straight line. The sender encodes a message, which is sent through the channel, interfered by noise. David Berlo recognized that the Shannon-Weaver model describes more than a telephone transmission. One can use this model for nearly all verbal interaction. Basic components of this model include: Sources and receivers (speaker and listener), Encoding and decoding (people encode messages by putting converting thoughts into their message, and they decode when they convert messages back into thought), Messages (names the substance of communication, what is being said, it can be verbal or non-verbal), Channel (the medium which the message circulates, the air which the message passes or electronic signals which converts the message), Noise (static in the phone line, or anything that hinders the communication process).

The Transactional Model

This model transfers the basics of the Shannon-Weaver model and focuses more on the heart of the communication process. It focuses more on the theory that we are always sending messages even if they are non-verbal, unintentional or quite explicit. The Shannon-Weaver model's heart is the transmission of the communication process, but the transactional model's heart is shared meaning.

ALL INFORMATION INCLUDING PICTURES CAME FROM THIS WEBSITE:

https://ecore.view.usg.edu/webct/urw/lc18395011.tp0/cobaltMainFrame.dowebct