Wednesday, September 2, 2009

What is Communication?




My communication model is a fairly literal depiction of what communication is. The two black figures are silhouettes of faces meant to represent communicator one and two. They are facing each other, as they would be in an intentional verbal communicative setting. The background text that is flowing between the two communicators is a representation of how each person at a given time is known as a sender and receiver simultaneously filtering what is being said in the conversation. As mentioned before this is a intentional verbal communicative setting, however the orange and red shapes are meant to represent what could possibly be other channels that messages or ideas could be communicated between the two individuals. The rather bold and bigger “communication” word that is flowing between the two people is the topic at hand being spoken from one individual, listened to by the other and hopefully remembered. However because communication is not always fully effective there are other factors that come into play. Interference is the main factor that results in having the receiver not interpret the same meaning to the message that was sent out by its sender. To represent this, the white circles and ovals in the background are present as different forms of interference whether it be technical or semantic.

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