LESSON 1

• Communication is the process of exchanging ideas, views, and emotions among participants, involving interaction
• Modern communication involves the exchange of thoughts, feelings, expressions, and observations among people through verbal, non-verbal, visual, and electronic means
• Components of the communication process include: source, message, channel, receiver, feedback, environment, context, and interference/barrier
• In communication, the sender conveys the message, the receiver listens and decodes it, and the message should be clear, courteous, and concise
• Feedback in communication is the verbal or non-verbal response of the receiver, promoting goodness and understanding
• Functions of communication include informing, persuading, entertaining, and sharing
• Stages in the communication process: stimulus, ideation, encoding, transmission, reception, decoding, understanding, and action
• Types of communication styles: formal (lectures, reports), informal (everyday talks), and barriers like physical, semantic, psychosocial, psychological, mechanical, cultural, organizational, and language barriers
• Principles of effective communication include being clear, concrete, courteous, correct, considerate, creative, concise, culture-sensitive, and captivating
• Forms of communication in the 21st century include verbal, non-verbal, visual, intrapersonal, interpersonal, extended/electronics, written, organizational, mass communication, and academic communication
• Forms of nonverbal communication include kinesics (body language), haptics (touch), proxemics (space), olfactics (smell), chronemics (time), artefactual (objects), physical appearance, and paralinguistic elements
• Principles of effective written communication: clarity, conciseness, concreteness, correctness, coherence, completeness, and friendliness
• Ethical considerations in communication involve establishing a value system, providing complete and accurate information, disclosing vital information, sincerity, diplomatic strategies, and solving communication barriers
• Media literacy involves analyzing media messages, understanding their construction, values, points of view, interpretations, interests, and creative language