COMM 1.1

• ENVIRONMENT OF COMMUNICATION - Even the most experienced communicators among us have been misunderstood at one time or another.

  
  

  • Distortions in message
  • Misinformation
  • Lack of information
• Effect is the difference between what a receiver thinks, feels, and does before and after exposure to a message. Thus, effect is best expressed in behavioral terms
• the communicator purposes: to gain attention, understanding, or acceptance, or to elicit action.
• Noise - any interference with the message travelling along the channel which may lead to the signal received being different from that sent. ex. static over telephone lines, blaring of the radio, car horn outside the window
• CLASSIFYING COMMUNICATION BARRIERS:

  1. technical problems
  2. semantic problems
  3. effectiveness problems
• Technical Problems - how accurately the message can be transmitted. (e.g: radio static; bad cellular signal.)
• Semantic Problems - how precisely the meaning is conveyed. (e.g. translating a publication from one language to another.
• Effectiveness Problems - how effectively does the received message affect behavior. (e.g. editor makes comments for the purpose of making a piece of writing more concise or precise)
• COMMUNICATION BARRIERS

  • Channel Noise
  • Environmental Factors
  • Semantic Noise
  • Socio-Psychological Barriers
  • Other Barriers
• Channel Noise

  • e.g. static, wrong speling, letters too small to read, dead air on the radio.
  • these affect the channel, medium, or instrument used in transmiting a message. in turn, they affect the fidelity of the message.
• Environmental Factors

  • e.g. uncomfortable sitting arrangements, rooms that are too hot, wall paper is too bright, meeting right after lunch barriers that are present in the environment in which a communication takes place.
  • they are external to the communication process but may create conditions under which communication effectiveness is hampered
• Semantic Noise

  • it happens when the message received as sent but the meaning received was different from the meaning sent. occurs when we use, hear, or read words with double meanings.
  • e.g. gay meant happy or joyful language serves as a bridge between peoples and culture, however, it can also serve as a barrier.
• Socio-Psychological Barriers

  • e.g. emotional blocks, charisma, stereotyping, first impressions, and absent mindedness
  • Stereotyping - means judging people before you know all the facts about them; believing that they have common characteristics common among members of each group.
• Other Barriers

  • Ethnocentrism - in viewing a group or culture as superior to all others.
  • e.g. e interpret messages from the context of our experiences. Most of the time it help us respond appropriately to stimuli, however at times, negative experiences makes us dysfunctional (disbelief, rejection, distortion, or misinterpretation)