Humans learned how to write characters and glyphs/symbols. Ability was improved during the print age when the printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the early 1400’s
Literate Age
Invention of various form of mass media, which later paved the way to the information and infrastructure age.
Electronic Age
When a communication expert views communication as a behavior and as an expression of inner thoughts, the perspective is toward psychology
Psychology
As mentioned, people come together to commune and form societies. As communication is the core of such formation, then the perspective is toward sociology.
Sociology
Communication makes cultural formation and maintenance possible as people share the meanings of codes and symbols. With communication becoming a way of life, this perspective lends itself toward anthropology
Anthropology
very quantitative, scientific, and empirical.
American perspective
also known as Wissenssoziologie, places interest in communication and its relationship with culture; thus, it primarily used interpretation as a method of analysis.
European views
Your personality is the product of your interaction with other people.
Personal Identity and Health
By engaging in conversations and later on uncovering certain aspects of yourself to other people, you are able to gain friends.
Relationship Values
Considered to be a popular collegiate degree due to the perception that communication is closely linked to professional success.
Professional Values
Participate in affairs of public interest (i.e., expressing your ideas and evaluating the idea of others).
Societal Values
View communication as a process of conveying a fixed quantity of information wherein message is determined by the sender or source.
Transmission Models
Shannon and Weaver’s Model
Value communication in the context of shared understanding and emotions among communicators.
Ritual or Expressive Model
o Often used to understand advertisements as they took into consideration how their message would received by the audiences.
Publicity Model
o Concerned with how audiences understand or decode the messages received.
Reception Models
two models under reception model
Schramm’s Model Berlo’s Model
Also known as the levels of communication
Breadth of Communication
Engaged in self-introspection, reflection, or conscience checking.
Intrapersonal Communication
mediated communication—such as chatting through social media or mobile applications—where the sender and the receiver become two different entities who exchange messages through a channel (light or sound).
Interpersonal Communication
Members of small groups have equal chances of participating and engaging in the discussion.
Small Group Communication
A speaker addresses several listeners and these listeners only have a limited opportunity to feedback.
Public Communication
Demonstrated before the audiences, but these audiences are typically anonymous and are in larger aggregates
Mass Communication
Found in the fields of journalism, filmmaking, public relations and advertising, marketing, book publishing, music, education, and many more.
Communication Practitioners
because of its function of ensuring that everyone in the society is accountable of their actions
Watchdog
because of its function of cementing and protecting social values necessary for organizing society
Vanguard
because of its role of providing checks and balances in the function of the other estate
Fourth Estate
Consciously frames stories and news narrative as a subtle promotion of advocacies that can give voice to the marginalized.
Advocacy Journalism
Present on radio and television.
Broadcast Journalism
Evolved to promote the active involvement of the public in the process of news gathering and delivery.
Citizen Journalism
Seen online or over the Web. It puts together the traditional elements of print journalism and the innovative means of the Internet.
Interactive Journalism
Utilizes images and photographs to tell the story.
Photojournalism
mastery of language use
Grammar
mastery of reasoning and argumentation.
Logic
mastery of public speaking.
Rhetoric
Individuals utilize communication for various reason.
INDIVIDUALS
Communication is crucial among organizations because they deal with informing, persuading, and promoting goodwill both internally
ORGANIZATIONS
Developing necessary communication skills is part and parcel of building a community.