week 3(2)

• Linear Models


  Portray communication as flowing in one direction, from a sender to a receiver which suggests that speakers only speak and never listen and that listeners only listen and never send the messages
• Linear Models


  • Shortcoming: they portray communication as flowing in one direction, from a sender to a receiver which suggests that speakers only speak and never listen and that listeners only listen and never send the messages
• Interactive Models


  Show that communicators create and interpret messages within personal fields of experience, and add feedback to allow communication to be seen as an interactive process which both senders and receivers participate actively
• Interactive Models


  • Limitation: they don't acknowledge that everyone involved in communication both sends and receives messages, often simultaneously, and fail to capture the dynamism of communication
• Transactional Model


  Portrays communication where at a given moment, you may be sending the message, receiving a message, or doing both at the same time (interpreting what someone says while nodding to show that you are interested)
• Transactional Model


  • Unlike the previous models, this model portrays each person's field of experience between communicators as changing over time as we encounter new people and grow personally
• This model does not label one person a "sender" and the other a "receiver". Instead, both people are defined as communicators who participate actively in the communication process